IBT Staff Reporter

Kosovo's parliament elected a Kosovo-Swiss businessman with close ties to Moscow as president on Tuesday as part of a power-sharing deal following December elections in the impoverished Balkan country.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will propose reducing $300 million in Medicaid spending by transferring all participants into a managed care plan as part of a speech on Tuesday outlining his state budget for the coming year, according to a report.

President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday that Islamist extremists were trying to rip Russia apart and that a wave of unrest across the Arab world could spark decades of strife by ushering fanatics into power.

West Africa's regional body ECOWAS said on Tuesday it was unable to join an African Union mission to mediate in Ivory Coast's power struggle due to threats of violence against it.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki ended a row over top judicial appointments that had threatened the country's fragile coalition government by saying on Tuesday that he would start the selection process afresh.

South Africa plans to set up a chain of pumping stations and treatment plants to prevent toxic liquids building up in defunct gold mines beneath Johannesburg from reaching dangerous levels.

Sarah Palin's ex-aide is working on a manuscript for a yet unreleased book, but supposed quotes from Palin have already started appearing in the media.

Pirates shot dead four American hostages on a yacht they had seized in the Arabian Sea, and a firefight left two pirates dead and 13 captured, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

South Africa's economic growth came in higher than expected in the fourth quarter, boosted by stronger growth in the mining and agricultural sectors, according to data released on Tuesday.

South Africa will export 4 million tonnes of surplus maize to the world's biggest emerging markets but wants to ensure security of food supplies in southern Africa first, a minister said on Tuesday.

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African farmland investment has the potential to match the exponential growth of Brazil's agricultural industry, the head of business development at privately owned agricultural operator Quifel said.

Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara will extend until March 10 the period of the ban he has called on cocoa exports to try to unseat his rival, a spokesman for his government said on Tuesday.

Muammar Gaddafi will neither leave Libya nor step down and a bloody fight to the end is likely with protesters intent on driving him out, the Libyan leader's former head of protocol said on Tuesday.

About 500 Egyptians protested in the capital on Tuesday demanding that new military rulers install a new government and lift the country's emergency law.

Thousands of Tunisians are fleeing Libya, many across its western land border, after a bloody crackdown there on protests against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, state media reported on Tuesday.

The U.S. government faced mounting calls for action against Libya on Tuesday as the regime of Muammar Gaddafi used tanks, helicopters and warplanes to unleash fresh attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators.

Muammar Gaddafi vowed to die in Libya as a martyr in an angry television address on Tuesday, as rebel troops said eastern regions had broken free from his rule in a burgeoning revolt.

Justin Bieber sure knows how to give back. The 16-year-old pop star announced via Twitter that he will donate all the cut hair to a charity to auction.

Pension funds and shareholder groups will back the proposal for a succession plan at Apple’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

A desperate Chelsea side will make the trip to the Parken Stadium to face FC Copenhagen for the first leg of the last-16 round tie on Tuesday.

Video spoofs of Radiohead's new music video, Lotus Flower have taken YouTube by storm.

A desperate Chelsea side will make the trip to the Parken Stadium to face FC Copenhagen for the first leg of the last-16 round tie on Tuesday.

U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure action haven't made a mortgage payment in an average of 17 months, compared to 11 months two years ago, and the time frame may increase, according to a USA Today report.

New York's elected judges will be barred from presiding over a case if the lawyer, plaintiff or defendant in that case has made any contribution of $2,500 or more in the judge's judicial election campaign during the two years prior to the trial, the state's top judge said.

New York's chief judge has taken steps to provide homeowners facing foreclosure legal representation free of charge.

Shares of Wal-Mart Stores fell nearly 4 percent in early trade after the world’s largest retailer a seventh straight quarterly decline in U.S. comparable-store sales, saying some of the pricing and merchandising issues ran deeper than it initially expected.

The private organizations taking part putting together a small business forum involving President Barack Obama and his top officials on Sunday have big hopes and plans for revitalizing northeast Ohio, an area of the nation which boasts a strong industrial history that fell upon hard times in recent decades.

Home Depot Inc (HD.N) beat quarterly profit and sales estimates and raised its fiscal-year outlook as shoppers took up long-delayed maintenance and repair projects for their homes in a slowly recovering U.S. economy.