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The following is an edited interview with Ellen Lust, a professor of political science at Yale University

Credit Agricole bank estimates that the ongoing political crisis in Egypt is costing the country’s economy at least $310-million per day, according to a report.

Reflecting a growing national trend in the U.S., Hispanics have become the largest minority in the state of New Jersey, supplanting blacks, according to Census Bureau data.

EU member states failed to relax a travel ban on Iran's foreign minister in time for him to attend this weekend's Munich security conference, but plan further discussion on whether to let him visit the bloc in future, an EU official said Friday.

Australia's cruel summer of cyclones and floods could generate a new, devastating political storm for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who now must buck hostile public opinion to find a way to pay for the clean-up.

Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire in a two-hour border clash on Friday that killed two Cambodian soldiers and a Thai villager, the latest in an ancient feud over land surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple.

Algerian opposition groups said on Friday they would probably go ahead with a planned protest march next week despite promises from the president to heed some of their demands and allow more political freedoms.

Hurricane Katrina reduced the population of the New Orleans by almost one-third, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Proposed changes to revenue sharing within the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are unacceptable because they place an unfair burden on its poorer members, a senior Namibian official said on Friday.

Now that all the hype and the hoopla of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States are over, the same basic commercial question remains unanswered: How can American companies create more jobs for Americans by selling more American goods and services in China?

A war of words between Uganda's main presidential candidates escalated on Friday, sparking fears of Egypt-style street violence should the opposition say the poll was rigged.

Algerian opposition groups said on Friday they would probably go ahead with a planned protest march next week despite promises from the president to heed some of their demands and allow more political freedoms.

Egypt has suffered huge economic losses during political protests that broke out 10 days ago but the government is committed to meeting its financial obligations, finance minister Samir Radwan said on Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet.

Among the issues raised by the recent outbreak of civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is the rapidly growing population in some of these countries. This subject has particularly stark implications for Israel.

The U.S. economy added a mere net new 36,000 jobs last month, although the unemployment rate fell sharply to 9.0 percent from 9.4 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to reduce the risk of preterm birth in at-risk pregnant woman.

In a probable response to the unrest rolling through the Middle East and North, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has reportedly promised to lift the country’s state of emergency in the very near future.”

With protesters set for a tenth day of demonstrations in Cairo on Friday, Egyptian leaders were seeking for opportunities - without success - for talks with opposition members.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the leading science research organ in the Asian country, has announced a decade-long program in applied scientific research titled Innovation 2020 that lays special emphasis on four key areas, namely space science, information technology, energy and health.

As popular protests are bring down governments or seriously compromising rulers in the Middle East, one person looking at the turn of events uneasily is the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah.

After stirring up a storm with the 'V for Victory, You are the Resistance' campaign, Infowars has now accused the Obama administration of triggering blackouts.

A Washington, DC-based nonprofit watchdog has urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to halt deceptive advertising and labeling of vitaminwater by a Coca-Cola Co unit.

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that text-based communications such as posting on micro-blogging service Twitter will be allowed in court hearings.

The government has resolved a month-long payments dispute with Iran over oil shipments, a source at the oil ministry said on Thursday, by allowing a domestic bank to handle payments in euros with a Germany-based counterpart.

The question that is plaguing everyone's mind is if NASA will let astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was wounded in the January shooting, command the upcoming flight of the space shuttle Endeavour.

Director of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Cairo tells Nature magazine that it would perhaps be in the interest of scientific pursuit in the country if Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Hany Helal continues to remain in office.

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few weeks, we may witness more battles in the endless and epic battle between Western values and Eastern resistance

A former regional supervisor charged with leading the investigation in to money manager Westridge Capital was surfing porn on his office computer, according to an SEC document.