As many as 1,000 dead bodies remain unmoved within a 20-kilometer radius from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, as fears of radiation leakage has prevented authorities from collecting and burying them, according to Japanese police officials.
Teams from the Senate and House negotiating a six-month federal budget deal for the remainder of the fiscal year are making 'good progress' even as the rhetorical battle among Republican and Democratic Party leaders rages in a bid to avoid an April 8 shutdown.
Another fresh and unusual political crisis is brewing in one of the wealthiest and most stable Arab states. Kuwait's cabinet has resigned in order to avoid having to answer certain questions from parliament, according to Reuters.
The Syrian government will establish a judicial committee that will consider the removal of its emergency laws, according to the state news agency.
The Japanese government said it has no plans currently to widen the evacuation zone outside the damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima, despite warnings from the UN nuclear watchdog that high radiation levels have been detected beyond the current no-go zone.
Moussa Koussa, Libya’s former foreign minister who defected to the U.K., has been questioned and debriefed by British authorities.
The rare earth minerals company Molycorp Inc has announced that it has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.
The FDA found small amounts of radiation in a sample batch of milk from Spokane, Washington. The level, however, was 5,000 times lower than the Derived Intervention Level set by the FDA.
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said Wednesday that one of the top executives at his company, David Sokol, has resigned from the company, soon after learning that Sokol bought stock in a company he recommended to Buffett.
Amidst reports that the Libyan foreign minister has defected to the west, soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi have recaptured the strategic oil city of Ras Lanuf from rebel factions.
President Barack Obama on Monday accepted an award celebrating transparency in government in a meeting closed to the press.
The British foreign ministry is reporting that Moussa Koussa, Libya's former foreign minister, has arrived in the UK and is resigning from his post.
Egypt extends olive branch to Iran; seeks to normalize ties
The government of Gujarat has banned a controversial book about its famous native son Mahatma Gandhi.
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday said President Barack Obama had not been able to answer a question about how long NATO would enforce a no fly zone over Libya if Col. Muammar Gaddafi did not leave the country.
Tesla says the popular BBC show has spread a campaign of misinformation regarding its Roadster electric car.
Libya’s foreign minister Moussa Koussa is reportedly on a plane flying to London after he spent a two-day visit in Tunisia, according to a report from the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) news agency.
Today’s much-anticipated speech from Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, failed to lift the country’s emergency laws (which have been in effect since 1963) nor did he offer any concrete political reforms or concessions.
Facebook has taken down a page created by Palestinian supporters which called for a new ‘intifada’ (uprising) against Israel, after Israel officials and U.S. Jewish groups complained.
President Barack Obama told U.S. students on Wednesday that with rapid growth in China and India, global demand for energy will continue to increase and a solution for reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil would require long term solutions, setting out goals for reducing oil imports and boosting the use of alternative electricity sources decades from now.
It is our contention that if the monthly private sector job growth shows a gain of 200,000 jobs or more, then it will be very difficult for the financial markets not to have a strong response to the collective employment data.
A prominent Shia opposition figure in Bahrain has demanded that Saudi Arabian-dominated foreign troops who were invited by the ruling family to quell disorder leave the kingdom immediately.
A slideshow showcasing Gaddafi's sons and their varied engagements.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed that all the illegal immigrants who have arrived on the island of Lampedusa from North Africa will soon be deported.
The British government has expelled five Libyan diplomats who allegedly could pose a threat to UK national security.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected present a vision of decline for the U.S. oil industry in next two decades, highlighting its lack of development at existing land leases as the country shifts to other 'Clean Energy' industries linked to nuclear power, 'clean coal,' natural gas, biofuels, wind and solar power.
The East African country of Uganda is reportedly willing to allow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi to live there in exile, according to spokesman for Ugandan president.
Police authorities in the small Californian town of Arroyo Grande have said an incident of cross burning is being investigated as a theft, arson and hate crime.
In his first public address to the Syrian nation since unrest broke out two weeks ago, President Bashar al-Assad blamed “conspirators” for the ongoing violence and vowed that he would defeat the “plot” against his country.
The president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, is expected to deliver a TV address to the nation for the first time since anti-regime protests erupted more than two weeks ago.
