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House Speaker John Boehner said on Monday that 'there's a chance' a vote to raise the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion may not happen if President Barack Obama 'doesn't get serious' about handling the nation's fiscal problems.

Wael Ghonim, the Google executive’s whose voice helped launch a revolution, has announced he is moving on from the tech giant.

Bashar al-Assad might be deeply hated by the people of Syria and a pariah in much of the world, but he can count on at least one friend.

Italy and France have called on the international community to cease shipping oil products to the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and also asked market operators not to purchase Libyan crude oil.

Rep. Ron Paul R-TX, will announce Tuesday he is formally exploring the possibility of running for the U.S. presidency in 2012 and says Washington's leaders are not realistically trying to pay down the United States' $14.3 trillion debt.

The president of Venezuela Huge Chavez has raised the minimum wage by 25 percent, effective in two stages beginning on May 1.

A senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group has reportedly been killed in Kunar province, Afghanistan, according to NATO.

al Qaeda had warned to set off a “nuclear hellstorm” if Osama bin Laden is ever captured or killed.

The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf have earned the highest safety ratings in the first-ever U.S. crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Monday.

The IMF recently projected that China's economy will overtake the US economy by 2016. This projection, however, can't be trusted at all.

The Obama Administration has fired back at comments made over the weekend by Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist preacher Billy Graham that the President might not have been born in the U.S.

The Turkish government has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for comments he made while commemorating the deaths of 1.5-million Armenians during World War I at the hands of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

The Italian air force will play a greater role in NATO’s air strike campaign in Libya, according to statement from the office of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

For the first time ever, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press conference on Wednesday after the Fed’s policy announcement. The key issue is likely to be inflation.

British security experts warn that Irish Republican terrorist groups may engineer attacks on the day of the Royal Wedding this Friday.

Donald Trump has made yet another high-profile enemy over his accusations that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.

Testimony unveiled on Sunday in documents released by Wikileaks from prisoners of the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba is not reliable because they were subjected to torture or other forms of coercion, or include false statements by other prisoners, an expert on the matter says.

The United States said it may impose sanctions against Syria in response to the brutal crackdown against protesters by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian government’s crackdown against protesters and demonstrators appears to be reaching a crescendo, as President Bashar al-Assad is apparently refusing to grant any further concessions to his rule and seems determined to squelch any further expressions of dissent.

President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - taking a break from discussing the nation's long term deficits - issued dueling statements on U.S. energy policy over the past several days, referring to changes in rules that could affect oil production, tax subsidies and research into alternative energy.

Violence and unrest continues unabated in Yemen, despite an agreement by President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after more than three decades in power.

Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president of Egypt, will soon be transferred to a military hospital in Cairo from a facility in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, after a doctor determined he was well enough to be moved.

Syrian army tanks have reportedly rolled into the southern city of Deraa as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems committed to intensifying its crackdown on anti-government protests, following a bloody weekend of killings by state security forces.

Gunatanamo detainees verbalized violent threats against their captors, according to the latest set of classified files leaked to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Thousands of devotees, some of them politicians, cricket players and Bollywood stars, thronged Puttaparthi to see the body of Indian spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba who passed away on Sunday morning at 6.40 am.

Italian police said they have arrested a top mafia boss from the southern province of Puglia.

Full text of the British Royal Wedding Guest List.

International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., to discuss Turkey’s evolving role in the Middle East, how it is handling the revolutions in the Arab world and its chances for accession into the EU.

Libyan rebels say there is intense fighting taking place 100 miles east of Tripoli, after forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi retreated to the outskirts of Misrata, a gateway city to the capital. The forces began launching rockets into the city, a rebel spokesman said.