Some prominent American universities and pension funds, among other wealthy foreign investors, are allegedly purchasing huge tracts of land in Africa -- acts that may lead to the eviction of thousands of local farmers, according to a study by the Oakland Institute (Oakland Institute), a California-based think tank.
Afghanistan will sink into a financial crisis in 2014, when foreign troops finally withdraw from the war-torn country, warned some top U.S. Democrats who are members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
U.S. stocks slipped for the sixth straight day on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's assessment of the economy kept investors worried about the recovery.
Bin Laden's second-in-command, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri. delivered a video eulogy for Osama Bin Laden, posted on YouTube today.
The Chinese military has confirmed that it is constructing its first aircraft carrier.
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the U.S. government is secretly planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear sites in order to further de-stabilize that country.
Want to leave the U.S. but just can't afford it this year? Maybe we can help with these 7 towns throughout the States with enough European flare to have you saying “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
The claim that senior al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a recent missile strike was disagreed by both U.S. and Pakistani authorities.
Microsoft Corp is looking to put its popular Kinect motion-sensing device at the heart of its Xbox game console, unveiling plans on Monday to allow users to control live television feeds, search YouTube and play action games with voice commands.
Venezuela has broken off its relations with the United States after Washington hit Venezuela's state-owned oil company with sanctions for providing gasoline to Iran, according to Press TV, the state-owned Iranian news network.
India is close to awarding a $4-billion defense contract to the U.S. to purchase ten C-17 Military aircraft, according to a report in the Associated Press.
17 militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan were killed in a missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone aircraft on Monday, said intelligence officials, following reports that a top Al Qaeda operative was killed in the region last week.
Iran backs all Islamic uprisings excluding those stirred up by Washington, said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Khamenei's statement means that Tehran has very less support for anti-government protesters in ally Syria.
Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.
Al-Qaeda terrorist and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri were among nine militants killed in a US drone strike, BBC reported today, quoting residents of South Waziristan tribal region.
The spot market price of Gold Bullion jumped $10 per ounce to $1539 Friday lunchtime in London - recovering the last of this week's 1.1% drop - before slipping back as the US Dollar fell on surprisingly weak US jobs data.
U.S. employers added only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest amount in eight months while the unemployment rate rose to 9.1, according to the Labor Department.
There is immense buzz in the market over the features, form and release date of the next generation iPhone from Apple, ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) that kick starts in San Francisco next Monday. Fans have kept fingers crossed as to what CEO Steve Jobs will tell them about the next generation iPhone.
Russian spy Anna Chapman has taken over as editor–in–chief of a new business magazine, five months after launching a TV show, giving a new direction to her career that saw her deported from the United States last summer.
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that a highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria, which is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany and other countries, is a never-before-seen mutation.
The United States vows to represent an obstacle in the representation of a Palestinian state at the UN.
Abandoning Pakistan would be a “dangerous” step for the U.S., according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen.
