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Taliban fighters fired rockets at the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul on Tuesday and attacked police in three other areas in the biggest assault the insurgent group has mounted on the Afghan capital.

Egypt's former intelligence chief who was also briefly vice president, Omar Suleiman, began giving testimony on Tuesday at the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who is charged with conspiring to kill protesters, state television reported.

Somali security forces briefly detained two Turkish aid workers on Tuesday after they delivered food to famine victims in an area near the capital controlled by rebels, officials said on Tuesday.

Gunmen shot dead four people in a bar in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri in the latest strike by a radical Islamist sect, police said on Tuesday.

The World Bank on Tuesday said it officially recognized the ruling National Transitional Council as Libya's government and had been asked to help lead efforts to restore vital services and develop jobs programs as the country tries to return to normal after a six-month war.

Libyan transitional forces besieging a bastion of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday gave residents two days to leave before a threatened onslaught, and fears rose for the fate of civilians trapped in the last redoubts of the fallen strongman.

African farm yields may fall as much as 20 percent in the next four decades because of climate change, placing a huge burden on a continent whose population is set to double by 2050 to two billion people, a conference heard on Tuesday.

You know what you do when you're in a race? Go for the top dog. Republican presidential candidates did exactly that in Monday night's CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. En masse, they gunned for front-runner Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

In U.S. politics, he who wins the verbal war often wins the political war, and with the aforementioned in mind, the Republicans are ahead.

A timeline of Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power and this his fall from power.

More Americans dropped below the poverty line last year amid a stalled economic recovery, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday.

Terming the dialogue initiated by the British government with Colonel Gaddafi in 2003 as right decision, the former MI5 chief Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller today acknowledged that though it was difficult, but the decision to engage in dialogue with Gaddafi in 2003 was right.

U.S. investors remained concerned that Europe's leaders are not getting ahead of the Greek crisis, which could result in a full-fledged Europe bank crisis, even as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while not committing more German funds to possible intervention, again dismissed talk of a Greek default.

Congressman Ron Paul was booed at the CNN Tea Party debate on Monday night for his remarks on the 9/11 attacks.

On a night when the Republican presidential candidates focused their energy on undermining frontrunner Rick Perry, the Texas governor's record on immigration again surfaced as a potential weak point.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the lead Republican presidential candidate, on Monday tempered earlier comments about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, but held firm in his opposition to more monetary stimulus from the central bank.

Gunmen attacked the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday morning. Reports from the city say that militants planted high up on a neighboring building fired down on the embassy with rockets and guns.

Is Rick Perry another GOP presidential candidate fast-rising star who quickly flames out? First, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney came out of the gate as as Republican race front-runner, but then he went AWOL. Then, Michele Bachmann, the House Republican from Minnesota, won the Iowa Straw Poll, but that was on the same day that Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy.

Tough guy and known for his hard-hitting approach towards advocates of crime, Bernard Hogan-Howe yesterday has been appointed as the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.

In a sophisticated and rare attack in the Afghan capital, insurgents launched a coordinated strike near the NATO headquarters and the US Embassy on Tuesday afternoon, security officials said.

President Barack Obama said he plans to offset the $447 billion cost of his new jobs plan by jettisoning tax breaks for wealthy Americans, prefiguring a clash with Republicans who have opposed similar measures in the past.

Two American men sentenced in Iran last month to eight years in prison on spying charges will be freed in two days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told a U.S. television network.

Libya's interim leader has made his first public speech in Tripoli, warning against reprisals after Moammar Gadhafi loyalists struck out at the revolutionaries pursuing them.

While Congresswoman Michele Bachmann caught the spotlight for a number of times during the debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry seemed to be on the defensive. What made Perry come under fire was the concern related to issuing an executive order for young girls to be vaccinated against HPV.

Prospects for job seekers are gloomier in most major economies than they were three months ago, as weak U.S. and European economies begin to affect employers' confidence in other parts of the world, according to a quarterly hiring survey by ManpowerGroup.

Warren Buffett advanced his succession plan on Monday by naming Ted Weschler, a low-profile hedge fund manager who has produced out-sized returns in the last decade, to help manage the investments of Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Republican presidential hopefuls meet in Florida on Monday for another debate that is likely to see front-runners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney jockeying for the lead.

Xu Hengrui scored 526 points in law entrance examination at Renmin University, one of China's most prestigious universities.

The Republican candidates came out swinging Monday night in the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa, Fla.