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So many Americans are so sick of political acrimony over raising the U.S. debt limit that it might seem unfathomable to have to do it all over again early next year. But that is exactly what the top U.S. Republican, John Boehner, is proposing for some practical political reasons.

Across the street from the U.S. Capitol in the small north lawn of the United Methodist Building, Christians, Muslims and Jews will pray on Tuesday for the country's budget, and hope to teach Republicans and Democrats a lesson in compromise.

The nominee to be the next top U.S. military officer warned on Tuesday that cutting security spending by $800 billion or more as part of deficit reduction measures would be "extraordinarily difficult and very high risk."

Efforts to find a deal to end the civil war in Libya intensified on Tuesday, with a U.N. special envoy heading for Tripoli and Western powers signalling that Muammar Gaddafi could stay in the country if he gives up power.

President Barack Obama's Democrats and their Republican rivals on Tuesday headed for a showdown over competing debt plans one week before a deadline for averting a potentially disastrous U.S. default.

Persistent economic woes are eroding President Barack Obama's support in his base of liberal and African-American voters, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.

China's rail minister, facing public outrage over Saturday's deadly train crash, has ordered a two-month safety review of railway operations and apologised for the accident which killed 39 people, state media reported on Tuesday.

?We have told Pakistan we are willing to discuss all issues with an open mind,? a senior Indian government official told media.

The lawyer of a Norwegian who killed at least 76 people in a bombing and a shooting spree said on Tuesday his client appeared to be a madman.

The number of Kenyans who will need food aid due to drought will rise to 3.5 million by September, the United Nations said on Tuesday, while European officials warned such crises would flare up again unless more money was directed at prevention efforts.

The Ugandan High Court has ordered the police to produce a journalist who has been held in an unknown location for 13 days, after a local media watchdog sued security chiefs over his disappearance.

Efforts to find a deal to end the civil war in Libya intensified on Tuesday, with a U.N. special envoy heading for Tripoli and Western powers signalling that Muammar Gaddafi could stay in the country if he gives up power.

U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore, will resign following allegations that he had a forced sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman.

While it may seem strange for a far-right Western European to praise India?s Hindus, it is actually nothing new.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has said he has no interest in running for president but relentless speculation about his plans could make him a kingmaker in 2012 and position him to run in 2016.

A coalition of Tea Party chapters and conservative lawmakers on Monday rejected yet another debt solution offering by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, as he tries to appease his conservative base while finding a common ground with Democrats.

"Why didn't you come earlier?," survivors screamed when Norwegian police arrived after an hour in which Anders Behring Breivik had wandered the wooded island of Utoeya shooting dead 68 people, most of them teenagers.

The confessed killer of 76 people in Friday's bomb and gun attacks in Norway described Japan as a model country in a document he distributed on the Internet, praising it for shying away from multiculturalism, Kyodo news agency reported.

Gay marriage became legal in New York on Sunday as same-sex couples rushed to exchange vows on the first day; 659 marriage licenses were issued yesterday in New York City alone.

At this juncture, the most likely solution to the acrimonious stalemate on Capitol Hill between Democrats and Republicans that threatens to trigger a dreaded U.S. Government default may be a hybrid plan combining elements of bills by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

So many Americans are so sick of political acrimony over raising the U.S. debt limit that it might seem unfathomable to have to do it all over again early next year. But that is exactly what the top U.S. Republican, John Boehner, is proposing for some practical political reasons.

China?s State Oceanic Administration said that the Jiaolong submarine, 8.2 meters long, weighing 22 tons and carrying a three-man crew, reached a depth of 5,057 meters (about 16,500 feet) Tuesday morning, spending over six hours underwater.

Goran Hadzic didn't speak must that the opening of his war crimes case.

orbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister, called it a "a new low" for Beck.

BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink urges President Obama and John Boehner to come to an agreement.

A government program to track guns purchased by drug cartels resulted in over 100 guns turning up at crime scenes, including that of a murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent, according to a highly critical report released by lawmakers on Tuesday.

Breivik apparently has found some ?common ground? with right-wing Hindu nationalists over their mutual contempt and fear of Muslims.

The crash of a military plane in southern Morocco has killed 78 people, according to reports.

Unwavering Republican resistance to higher taxes has been a central obstacle to a debt talks deal, and no Congressman has embodied the anti-tax stance more than House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.