Iran has hanged two men for their activities during the turmoil following President Ahmadinejad’s controversial election victory in 2009. Iran has now executed 64 people is just the past twenty-four days, or on average one person every nine hours.
Lovers of chocolate probably have no clear idea where the Ivory Coast is located, but political turmoil in that West African nation will likely drive up the price of their favorite sweet treat.
A bombing at Russia's largest airport in Moscow on Monday has killed more than 30 people and injured numerous others, according to reports.
Millions of children worldwide die every year from preventable diseases and the bad situation is only going to worsen due to an increasing shortage of healthcare workers.
Violent crime in New York City, the nation’s largest city, has plunged over the past twenty years.
The United States warned China it would redeploy forces in Asia if Beijing failed to rein in North Korea, an Obama administration official said on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to Seoul's demands for crisis talks.
Brent Bozell, president of the right-wing Media Research Center (MRC) and publisher of NewsBusters, issued the following statement about the forced departure of outspoken liberal Keith Olbermann from MSNBC.
Ireland plans to use some of its 24 billion euro pension reserve fund to purchase its own bonds, a move some say is akin to national cannibalism.
The ten most “prosperous” nations on earth, according to Legatum’s system, are dominated by Europe. The top ten in order are Norway, Denmark, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden. Canada, Switzerland, Netherlands and the United States.
Flooding in South Africa has killed more than 100 people over the last month, saturating farms in the major food producer for the continent and leading the government to declare 33 municipalities disaster areas.
Gunmen have killed a soldier guarding a church in northeastern Nigeria, the army said on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks in a region with a history of religious violence.
Nigeria wants U.N. backing for military intervention in Ivory Coast to prevent it slipping into a civil war that could destabilise the West African region, Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said on Monday.
A deadly blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport killed at least 23 people on Monday, agencies have reported. Following is a timeline of major attacks in Moscow in recent times:
Russia's Domodedovo airport seems to be attracting a steady stream of trouble since last month.
As many as 23,500 British companies may go bankrupt this year, as a direct result of government spending cuts, and almost 150,000 firms are in serious financial trouble, warned Begbies Traynor Group, the insolvency specialist.
OPEC may consider raising production in 2011 in order to meet higher demand, according to the oil minister of Saudi Arabia.
Political parties in Ireland will hold crisis talks following the abrupt departure of the Green Party from the coalition led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
School-going children of two schools in the city-state of Singapore are now relieved of carrying satchels full of textbooks and notes to their school as they have been given Apple’s iPads as part of a pilot project.
The President himself will answer people's questions on a live Youtube interview on Thursday.
In 1999, a US high-tech stealth fighter jet was drowned by a vintage SA-3 missile shot by a Siberian air-force commander named Col. Zoltan Dani.
Tunisia has arrested the owner of a private TV station and his son for treason for inciting violence and working for ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's return, the state news agency said on Sunday.
The latest sex scandal surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has damaged his public image but support for his party has risen, meaning he would likely win an early election, a respected pollster said on Sunday.
The Iranian nuclear issue cannot be resolved in just one or two discussions, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Sunday, a day after a high-level meeting aimed at addressing Tehran's nuclear plans ended in disappointment.
Ohio's unemployment rate in December to 9.6 percent from 9.8 percent a month earlier.
Italian capital city Rome has given up on its plans of hosting a Formula 1 race, the city's Mayor Gianni Alemanno announced.
With two major international sports events, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Brazil in the next five years, it’s high time the country should improve its “substandard” tourism infrastructure, according to the Brazil Tourism Report Q1 2011, released recently.
Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play a fictional dictator in a movie inspired by a novel written by Saddam Hussein. 'The Dictator' will release in May 2012.
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night will touch upon steps needed to grow the economy, private job creation and reducing government spending, a White House spokesman said.
Controversial, colorful politicians like Silvio Berlusconi are a dying breed.
World powers failed to prise any change from Iran in two days of talks on its nuclear program, with the EU and United States calling the discussions disappointing and saying no further meetings were planned.
