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The president of the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of General Motors Colombia, or Asotrecol, traveled to Detroit to continue the group's hunger strike and push for direct negotiation with General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) corporate management.

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the famous 2008 "HOPE" poster of President Barack Obama, was sentenced to two years of probation (which includes 300 hours of community service) and fined $25,000 in a New York Court on Friday.

President Obama's address, as pundits noted, did not inspire the kind of enthusiasm that his speeches have become known for.

Honduras is implementing a bold new plan to establish independent "charter cities" that will operate under separate laws in a bid to draw more foreign investment. Proponents says the plan will create thousands of jobs and spur economic development in the rest of Honduras, while critics say they will only open the door for corporations and other governments to exploit cheap labor and neoliberal tax laws.

Iran is sending in its Revolutionary Guard to aid Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, but it may not be enough as France and Turkey begin to lend assistance to the rebels.

Official aid from the South to the North often goes through the Red Cross as a matter of formality and convenience.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his priority in Syria is to end the violence, but accuses rebel supporters of pursing a 'dangerous and short-sighted policy.'

After breaking from decades of military rule, Myanmar's parliament ratified legislation promoting foreign investment on Friday, opening the southeast Asian country to investment from companies like MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA), the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE).

The No. 2 seed outlasted Juan Martin del Potro in a five-set marathon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was "mistaken" in an interview aired Thursday.

The tentative release date for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 flagship device is Nov. 2 for AT&T subscribers, the Verge has reported. Sources familiar with Nokia’s plans have said that the company is working with Microsoft and AT&T to undergo numerous tests required to approve the Windows Phone 8 handset within that time frame.

It's been three years since the Great Recession technically ended, and still, unemployed Americans are struggling to find work.

Culture in America is dead, largely because the middle-class does not care about such things.

The speech was curiously lacking in specifics about Obama's record to date, sticking instead to a vague framework for a potential second term. Here are a few of the things the president left out.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, set new record highs Friday ahead of next Wednesday’s announcement of a new member of the iPhone family, perhaps the iPhone 5.

Even if some complications such as bleeding happen less frequently with robotic surgery, it's possible men who get that procedure may have more sexual or urinary problems further down the road.

The chief of the NATO military alliance is on a damage-control tour of Central Asia after Azerbaijan's president pardoned, promoted and financially compensated a man who hacked to death a fellow NATO soldier, who was Armenian, threatening a shaky ceasefire between two long-time foes.

The U.S. economy added a paltry 96,000 jobs last month, vastly fewer than economists were expecting. However, the fact that fewer Americans were seeking employment resulted in the unemployment rate falling to 8.1 percent.

I have never been certain if tipping was simply a 'courtesy' or the 'law.'

It's a sign of good times in the Eastern Hemisphere: beer is becoming more and more popular in Asia.

The European markets continued the upward rally Friday, a day after the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the widely anticipated bond-buying program aimed at lowering the struggling euro zone countries' borrowing costs.