Eric Linton

Stabilizing risk appetite lifted Asian shares and riskier currencies Wednesday, after firm demand at Spanish debt sales, positive corporate earnings, and improved sentiment in Germany boosted investor confidence.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that Sunday's coordinated Taliban attack on Kabul showed a failure by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, while Washington signaled the Haqqani group of militants was responsible.

President Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has narrowed to 4 percentage points from 11 points a month ago, now that Romney has established himself as the probable Republican nominee, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Monday finds.

The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it revoked the top security clearance of 11 agents and uniformed division personnel over alleged misbehavior in Colombia, and a U.S. official said more than 10 military service members may also have been involved.

Senate Republicans on Monday afternoon blocked President Barack Obama's Buffett Rule legislation, which would have put a 30-percent minimum tax on millionaires.

North Korea won’t be bullied by its enemies, Kim Jong Un vowed in his first public address at a military parade marking his grandfather's centennial.

Three top contenders for Egypt's presidency were scrambling to stay in the race Sunday after the authorities disqualified them.

Taliban fighters launched a coordinated wave of assaults across Afghanistan Sunday, targeting the embassy district of Kabul and parliament, as well as trying to strike an airbase used by American troops, officials said.

Syrian government forces shelled Homs on Sunday, residents of the rebellious city said, as a six-person advance party of U.N. observers is due to arrive in Syria to monitor a ceasefire.

A divided federal appeals court struck down a federal ban on political advertising on public TV and radio stations, a decision that could open the public airwaves to campaign ads for the November elections.

Asian shares rose Friday on better-than-expected demand for Italian sovereign debt, shrugging off the failed rocket launch by North Korea before the markets opened.

George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin and disregarded a police dispatcher's request that he await the arrival of police after killing him, an affidavit of probable cause asserts.

Heavy weapons fire echoed through the capital of Guinea-Bissau Thursday, witnesses said, and soldiers surrounded the residence of former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, the frontrunner in a presidential election.

A strong earthquake hit western Mexico on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and sending people rushing out of offices onto the streets, though there were no reports of major damage.

Syria was due to observe a ceasefire from dawn Thursday, but its fierce attacks on opposition neighborhoods in the run up to the U.N. deadline fuelled widespread doubts it would comply.

Kim Jong Un, has been named head of the ruling Communist party, consolidating his status just before a planned missile launch that could halt a U.S. food deal and raise regional tensions.

China's Communist Party suspended former high-flying politician Bo Xilai from its top ranks and named his wife, Gu Kailai, as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman, explosive revelations on Tuesday likely to rattle leadership succession plans.

The two suspects in a shooting rampage that terrorized the black community in Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend have confessed, police said Monday.

George Zimmerman released a public statement on the life-altering killing of Trayvon Martin

Asian shares eased Tuesday as investors cautiously awaited Chinese trade data to gauge whether the world's second-largest economy could achieve a soft landing, after a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs creation clouded prospects for global growth.

Syrian troops shelled villages, fired across frontiers and were accused of massacres in the hours before a supposed truce deadline.

Mali's ousted president penned a resignation letter Sunday and in the presence of reporters handed it to an emissary to deliver to the country's new leaders.

The United States and Afghanistan signed a deal Sunday giving the Afghans control over night military operations, resolving a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai and Washington.

A bid for power by Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief is an insult to Egypt's revolution that, if successful, would trigger a second nationwide revolt, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency said Sunday.

The United States and its allies are pressing for an end to Iran's high-level uranium enrichment and the closure of a facility built deep under a mountain as talks on Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West resume this week.

Legendary newsman Mike Wallace, a mainstay of CBS News' 60 Minutes, died Sunday at age 93.

Syria on Sunday demanded written guarantees that insurgents will stop fighting before it pulls back troops.

One one of the Senate's most senior Republicans called President Barack Obama stupid in tweet Saturday, his staff confirmed.

Oklahoma police said two white men were arrested early Sunday as suspects in shootings that left three people dead and two others critically wounded, all black, in the Tulsa area.