Daniel Tovrov

Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan was attacked from all sides on Tuesday, with his fellow candidates panning him during the GOP Debate in Las Vegas and President Barack Obama criticizing the plan on television.

Nearly 500 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel on Tuesday, all in exchange for detained Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Gilad Shalit was released on Tuesday, after being held captive for five years by Palestinian political group Hamas. After years of protests, failed compromises and international outrage, the Israeli solder was finally reunited with his family.

After the tragic death of Dan Wheldon on Sunday, IndyCar and Las Vegas Speedway are investigating the racetrack to see if it was too fast and too short to be safe.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are being sued by blues musician Syl Johnson, who claims the duo unlawfully sampled his song Different Strokes for their song The Joy from the album Watch the Throne.

Severe flooding in Thailand has left more than 300 people dead and stranded thousands of others. As rain waters inundate farms and flood cities, the country now faces about $7 billion in damages.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Tripoli, Libya, visiting with the country's post-Moammar Gadhafi leadership.

IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died from blunt trauma to the head, according to Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy.

After Saturday Night Live did another GOP Debate sketch this weekend, Rick Santorum was upset by the way he was portrayed on the satirical comedy show.

Libya's revolutionary army has captured the city of Bani Walid, one of the last cities that was still under the control of the pro-Gadhafi resistance.

In Nigeria, a member of parliament was shot dead by militants thought to be affiliated with Islamic group Boko Haram.

IndyCar racer Dan Wheldon died after a mid-race crash on Sunday, sending a shock wave through the sport. Video of the fiery 15-car crash is horrific, but so far it hasn't helped determine the cause of the accident.

Strauss-Kahn was on a list of politicians, lawyers and businessmen involved in a prostitution ring that extended from France to Belgium and may have included women under the age of 18.

Last week, Israel rejoiced at the news that captured soldier Gilad Shalit would be released from a Hamas prison after five years. But now, many Israelis are angered by the lopsidedness of the prisoner exchange, in which Israel will send home 1,027 Palestinian detainees.

Francois Hollande won France's Socialist Party nomination on Sunday, positioning him to run against Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election. Creating unity with in his own party will be an enormous task.

The bronze butt piece from the statue of Saddam Hussein that was torn down after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 is up for sale at a British auction house later this month.

Both bloggers and the military played important roles in the Egyptian uprising of 2011, but the two groups are not at odds. In Iran, there is a similar silencing of opposition voices. Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the film My Tehran for Sale.

Radiohead never showed up, but Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York's Zuccotti Park have gotten to sing along with The Nightwatchman's Tom Morrello and Peter Yarrow, of Peter Paul and Mary. Who else could play the protest?

The 44-year-old educator from Beziers, who has not been named, poured gasoline over herself in the school's playground and lit herself ablaze.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading around the world. There are now protests in Spain, England, Hong Kong. Italy is next in line. Can the international movement be sustained?

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a confidence vote in parliament by a hair on Friday, taking the exact number of votes required to win.

A time-lapse video of the 2011 Burning Man festival has been released. The five-minute film is shot from a hill over the annual event, showing the large dust storms of the desert days and bright, multi-colored lights of the night-time parties.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was found guilty of abuse of power and sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday, but her legal troubles are far from over, and the government has now accused her of embezzling $400 million.

The Mexican army paraded captured Los Zetas boss Carlos Oliva Castillo, nicknamed The Frog, in front of the media on Thursday, proudly displaying their latest victory in the country's ongoing war on drugs. But will the arrest have any effect on Mexico's increasingly violent drug war?

The National Transitional Council is still fighting to pry Sirte from the remaining Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the city. Three members of the NTC said Wednesday that they had captured Gadhafi's son Mutassim trying to flee Sirte and taken him Benghazi.

A profile of powerful Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, who have made a name for themselves at home, in the United States and even in Iran.

Nineteen people in Poland were arrested on suspicion of providing explosives and bomb-making material to Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in Oslo in July. The arrests included 12 people from a Poznan-based company that sold explosive fuses over the Internet.

Apple beat Samsung in an Australian court on Thursday, continuing the ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being sold Down Under.

Iranian student Peyman Aref was lashed 74 times on Sunday, the same day he was freed from a one year prison sentenced.