WORLD

Thousands protest in Hungary against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pension cut.

They really rolled out the red carpet for Angelina Jolie when she decided to pay a visit to Syrian refugees at the Turkish border today.

The United States' first chief information officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra, 36, will resign and leave the Obama administration in middle of August, according to the White House. After resignation he plans to take on a fellowship post at Harvard University.

Forty years after the end of the 1971 East Pakistan war – which resulted in the independence and formation of the modern nation of Bangladesh – a new book on the conflict by an Indian author has sparked outrage among Bengalis around the world.

Spanish police announced that they froze the assets of one of dethroned 30-year Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's inner-circle.

Vivek Kundra, the nation's first federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), will quit the White House in August for a fellowship at Harvard University.

A powerful and corrupt telecommunications mogul has turned away from his friend, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The new chief of Santander UK and her family are facing a tax evasion charges by a Spanish court.

Former President Jimmy Carter, writing in a NYTimes op-ed, agreed with a Global Commission on Drug Policy that showed the current global War on Drugs to be a “total failure, especially in the US.

Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that negotiations on raising the debt ceiling are entering a contentious new phase now that Democrats and Republicans have agreed on cuts favored by both parties.

The Senate moved to end tax credits for ethanol producers yesterday, a largely symbolic move that nonetheless reflects a growing will to reconsider a formerly sacrosanct government subsidy.

Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday, calling on Saudi authorities to stop treating women as second-class citizens and open the Kingdom's roads to women drivers.

A man lurking suspiciously overnight in Arlington National Cemetery was arrested by U.S. Park Police. Several major roads are currently closed near the Pentagon.

A three-year old radical group detonated two bombs in Nigeria Thursday. Nine were killed and many more injured.

Prince William with his new bride Catherine will tour Canada followed by a Hollywood weekend, the royal couple will first land in Canada to begin their 11 days North American tour.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn initially claimed diplomatic immunity when he was first arrested for sexual assault in New York, according to official documents and transcripts released by prosecutors in the case.

Saudi women took to the streets today to contest a fatwa banning women from driving. International media reported that there was none of the expected retaliation from Saudi police forces, expected by many analysts to blow the situation up into something more befitting an Arab nation in the Jasmine era.

The new Al Qaeda boss has been in hiding since 2001. Will the United States locate him soon?

The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy said he has pledged to resolve the Greek debt crisis and that a solution needed to be found quickly, by July at the latest; and that he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are united in their resolve.

The teeming Chinese metropolis of Shanghai could become the world’s largest financial center in a decade, according to a report from KPMG and FTSE.

The U.S. Embassy in Brasilia to accommodate Brazilian travelers who seeking visas to visit the U.S. will open on Saturday, June 18, along with the U.S. consulates in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

Doug Ellin, the executive producer of Entourage, the comedy-drama television series that premieres on HBO has reached out to Anthony Weiner to play himself on the show.

Destiny Mathis, a surgical technologist and mother of three, decided to sell a hand written letter that she received from President Obama.

Within hours of the Al Qaeda's announcement appointing Ayman al-Zawahiri as Osama Bin Laden's successor, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that the terror network's new chief is no match for his predecessor.

The Philippines on Friday announced that it will send its World War II vessel to a borderline part of the South China Sea after China headed its coastal patrol vessels in the waters.

Vivek Kundra , who is the White House's first chief information officer and was the key leader in his administration's effort to streamline the federal government's massive IT infrastructure is leaving in August for a fellowship at Harvard.

Saudi women are coming out in droves today in the Muslim holy land to protest the ban by getting behind the wheel and cruising.

President Barack Obama offered some much-needed support to US Congressman Anthony Weiner who resigned weeks after a damaging sexting scandal erupted.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has teamed up with Internet providers to roll out a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic, in order to prevent cyber attacks against defense firms by foreign rivals.