Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday.
With one budget fight behind him, President Barack Obama will offer a long-term plan for deficit reduction this week in preparation for bigger U.S. spending battles ahead, the White House said on Sunday.
With one budget fight behind him, President Barack Obama will offer a long-term plan for deficit reduction this week in preparation for bigger U.S. spending battles ahead, the White House said on Sunday.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
The last-minute budget deal President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck to avert a government shutdown paves the way for what Republicans promised on Saturday will be more spending fights to come.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday to narrowly avert a government shutdown that would have hit the economy and idled hundreds of thousands of workers.
Garbage will pile up in the streets of the capital, the Statue of Liberty will close and astronauts will stay home if the Congress fails to reach a budget deal and the government shuts down.
Johnson & Johnson on Friday agreed to pay $70 million to settle U.S. charges that it paid bribes and kickbacks to win business overseas, the first big drug company to settle since the Obama administration began its scrutiny of the industry more than a year ago.
With a Friday midnight deadline to avert a shutdown of the federal government a Republican aide said in a published report that there will not be enough time to pass a six-month agreement and a one week extension would need to be approved.
In another concession to unprecedented waves of protest, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has ordered a decree to grant Syrian nationality to thousands of Kurds whose citizenship has been revoked in the early 1960s in a census.
It is said that behind every successful man is woman, however Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has two wives, a doting daughter, hundreds of gun toting female guards, a Ukrainian nurse and female supporters behind him.
Donald Trump is the most sensational candidate to informally announce his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election.
With a government shutdown looming, congressional negotiators plan to meet again on Wednesday but remain billions of dollars apart in their search for a budget deal to keep federal agencies running beyond Friday.
With time running short, President Barack Obama failed on Tuesday to break a deadlock in budget talks between his Democrats and Republicans that threatens a partial shutdown of the government.
With time running short, President Barack Obama failed on Tuesday to break a deadlock in budget talks between his Democrats and Republicans that threatens a partial shutdown of the government.
With time running short, President Barack Obama failed on Tuesday to break a deadlock in budget talks between his Democrats and Republicans that threatens a partial shutdown of the government.
Libya’s government said it is willing to consider reform, but remained adamant that Moammar Gaddafi must remain in power in order to prevent chaos in the country, as witnessed in Iraq and Somalia.
According to Amnesty International, as many as 527 people were executed in 2010. A staggering number of 17,833 people are counting their days in the death row in various countries. Following is an overview of the system of death penalty in China, Iran, the United States, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Yemen which top the chart of executions worldwide.
Robots from the United States are getting ready to help Japanese workers cope with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The Kurds are a non-Arab people who have no state. There are anywhere between 30-million and 35-million Kurds spread out over various nations in the Middle East and the former Russian republics, with Turkey, Iraq and Iran having the highest number.
