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President Barack Obama announced Friday a private-public partnership of more than a $3 billion to fight hunger and malnutrition in Africa.

Iran is getting a visit from the United Nations' nuclear agency on Sunday, a surprise development as Iran prepares for scheduled talks with Western powers next week.

With the euro under threat and looming nuclear showdowns in Iran and North Korea, the Heidi-like retreat of Camp David in Maryland will come as a welcome break for the beleaguered leaders as they gather for this weekend's Group of 8 summit.

In a talk at New York's Princeton Club, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman said the solution to create more jobs and get the U.S. economy to grow faster isn't rocket science: it's fiscal stimulus.

There are currently about 130,000 foreign troops in the country, with Americans accounting for about 90,000 of them.

The European Union and European Central Bank have a contingency plan in place in the event that Greece is forced to exit the euro zone, according to EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht. However, he did not divulge the details of this contingency plan.

CNN's Italian football correspondent claims there is a 99% chance Fabio Capello will become the next Chelsea boss, if the club fails to win the Champions League.

The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago this Sunday will be dominated by discussion of the alliance's transition out of a combat role in Afghanistan to an advisory one, and particularly, who is going to foot the bill amid a global climate of fiscal austerity to ensure it all goes over smoothly.

London will burst at the seams this summer as the world converges for the 2012 Olympic Games, but it's not too late to find a place to sleep in the British capital.

U.S. will begin to issue licenses to allow investments in the country, but maintain the arms embargo.

In bilateral discussions on Friday, British Prime Minster David Cameron is expected to urge newly elected French President François Hollande to renege on campaign promises to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012.

On a percentage basis, the biggest spikes came from Greece and Spain.

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) announced Thursday it will build its next generation Vauxhall/Open Astra cars at two factories in Ellesmere Port, UK and Gliwice, Poland, leaving the company's Bochum, Germany plant facing closure.

A close look at the five names rated as favorites to replace Kenny Dalglish in the Liverpool hot seat.

Cameron?s statements came on the heels of similar warnings by Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King that the euro zone?s failure to get a grip on the debt crisis poses the biggest threat to Britain?s economic recovery.

Israeli leaders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak have long taken a hawkish stance against Iran.

It?s no secret that the name Hugh Dancy is synonymous with sex-appeal. Not only is he a dashing Brit with an undeniable charm, he also stars in the hottest show on Broadway, ?Venus in Fur? and the raunchy new comedy ?Hysteria?.

The Pirate Bay, bane of content creators and love of downloaders, has endured a prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has disabled the site for an unusually prolonged period of time, with many pointing to hacktivist group Anonymous as the source of the problem.

Lucky customers, who have pre-ordered their Galaxy S3 from certain Samsung stores in the U.K, will get their hands on the device the eve before the official May 30 release date.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday said the country will provide Afghanistan with 150 million euros annually to support its security forces. The funding will start in 2015, the year after NATO-led forces are scheduled to leave the country.

Kenny Dalglish has been sacked as manager of Liverpool.