Women who are qualified to serve in combat should be allowed to do so, according to a nonpartisan commission tasked with promoting equal opportunity in the U.S. military services.
In an effort to prevent the kind of unrest currently engulfing Tunisia, the government of Jordan has unveiled a $230-million economic package to help the nation’s poor by cutting the prices of essential consumer goods and by creating jobs.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan Washington-based group promoting fiscal responsibility, is holding a contest on the best ways to better balance the nation’s bank account and avert an economic disaster.
The former Swiss banker who is set expose the bank accounts of wealthy tax-evaders and other prominent individuals to WikiLeaks, has himself been found guilty in a Swiss court of having violated the country’s band secrecy laws through some previous disclosures of bank data.
U.S. lawmakers will consider new health care insurance benefits and the cost of paying for them on Wednesday, as the House heads to a vote on whether to repeal last year's major health care overhaul law.
More than one in five young Italians are neither working nor studying in school, the highest such proportion of inactive youths in the European Union, according to the country’s national statistics office, ISTAT.
As Chinese President Hu Jintao meets U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to the U.S., a key question is if he will take up Obama's offer to play a more active role on the world stage.
The flag of the Palestinian Liberation Organization was hoisted above the PLO's offices in Washington, D.C. Tuesday and the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee quickly criticized the act.
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday to demand the dismissal from the new coalition government of ministers associated with ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a one month delay to the inauguration of parliament after a special election court asked for more time to look into fraud allegations, his office said Wednesday.
Twenty Afghan civilians, including 13 children, were killed by a roadside bomb in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a senior official said, in the country's deadliest insurgent attack in nearly six months.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said an African effort to mediate Ivory Coast's disputed poll had failed on Wednesday, blaming incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and warning of harsh sanctions or force if he did not step down.
A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed up to 15 people and wounded more than 50 in an attack on Wednesday on an Iraqi police training centre in volatile Diyala province, officials said.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded bond ratings of the Tunisian government to Baa3 from Baa2, and changed its outlook to negative from stable – citing the country’s political instability amidst the ongoing chaos of street protests and change in regime.
Uganda's central bank said on Wednesday it would adopt a more aggressive stance towards the shilling's exchange rate after the local currency sunk to an all-time low of 2,395/2,400 versus the dollar.
Burundi's year-on-year inflation rate rose for the third straight month to 6.3 percent in December from 5.5 percent a month earlier, partly due to higher transport costs, official data showed on Wednesday.
Mergers and acquisitions activity in sub-Saharan Africa surged to a record $44 billion in 2010, double the value of a year earlier, Thomson Reuters data showed on Wednesday.
The government of China government has placed an order for 200 Boeing planes, according to senior U.S. government officials, as part of a $45-billion export deal with China.
House speaker, John A. Boehner declined an invitation to attend tonight’s official state dinner at the White House in honor of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The following is the text released by the White House of remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao on the morning of January 19, 2011 at the South Lawn of the White House at the official arrival ceremony. Neither president took questions.
A Labour Party MP is seeking to amend the laws of royal succession to the British throne to remove the supremacy of male heirs over females, ahead of the scheduled April wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Love won’t be in the air this Valentine’s Day in Iran as the country has banned productions of Valentine’s Day gifts in a bid to discourage the spread of “Western” culture.
Wheat and grain farmers in Argentina have called for a seven-day strike to protest the government’s export quotas which they say prevents them for taking advantage of rising global food prices and keeps domestic prices artificially low.
Even as the U.S. and China are preparing for what is termed as the most important heads of state level meeting in a decade, Japan has come out strongly for healthy ties between the world's two largest economies which happen to be political adversaries as well.
Things are looking different for eternal romancer and alleged chronic sex offender Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, whose wily ways to keep himself out of law's long arms are equally matched by his scornful defiance of morality and integrity.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers on Tuesday are: NuVasive, Datalink, Coldwater, Ener1 and TASER International. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers on Tuesday are Cree, DepoMed, Rubicon Technology, Veeco Instruments and Ares Capital.
Australia's government is reportedly considering a taxpayer levy to help pay for massive flood rebuilding, while preserving the budget's path back to surplus in 2012-13, as one major bank warned on Tuesday the damage bill could reach A$20 billion.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reshuffle his cabinet on Wednesday in a mid-term effort to refresh a coalition government snared by corruption scandals and year-high food inflation as it faces key state elections.
History shows the U.S. can force China to revalue the yuan.
Executives from General Electric, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Boeing, Intel and Carlyle Group will be among U.S. business leaders at a meeting on Wednesday hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama with Chinese President Hu Jintao, a White House official said.
