Palash Ghosh

In protest, Le Pen declared she will cast a blank ballot in the May 6 poll.

The one constant that we can rely on is the willingness of the Federal Reserve to act promptly if the data were to become unambiguously negative

The vessel reportedly capsized and broke apart into two segments.

Almost 40 people were killed and hundreds wounded by unknown shooting assailants in a tragedy that officially remains a mystery.

Swedish retailer Ikea rejected claims in a new documentary that claims it used East German political prisoners in its factories in the 1970s and 1980s.

Two of bin Laden?s ex-wives are Saudi, while another is a national of Yemen

His kidnappers and killers have threatened to release a video they took of Dale?s decapitation.

Sarkozy linked the publication of the document to the imminent elections.

Some ultra-Orthodox members of Netanyahu?s coalition have vowed to fight changes in the law.

Iran and six other world powers, including the U.S., will resume nuclear negotiations in Baghdad, Iraq on May 23.

Some top Israeli officials have repeatedly compared the current regime in Tehran to Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler?s program of exterminating the Jews.

Challenger Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy are apparently seeking to attract those who cast ballots for Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election's first round on April 22. The way these voters break most likely will determine the winner of the second round on May 6.

Child-marriages have been illegal in India since the 2006 passage of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, but the practice persists unabated, particularly among the rural poor.

S&P downgrades Spain, citing debt worries.

The discovery of the world?s former most wanted man threatened relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.

Gantz had earlier stated that he believed international sanctions will force Iran to give up its atomic ambitions.

She also said that this new dynamic may lead to significant changes with respect to Pakistan?s relationships with the U.S. and India.

The latest photos suggest that the magnitude of Pyongyang?s military build-up might have been grossly exaggerated.

Sarkozy has to walk a fine line between trying not to alienate Le Pen?s supporters, while appearing not to agree with some of their more extremist points of view.

Gantz?s moderate and cautious rhetoric is a far cry from the dramatic statements and belligerent stances of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak,

The missile?s impact point was somewhere in the Indian Ocean, according to the military unit.

Over the past three decades, South Korea has catapulted itself from Third World-caliber poverty to becoming a technologically superior economic powerhouse.

However, Ottawa will keep in place a ban on any arms trade with Myanmar.

Syrian soldiers and security forces are harassing and even killing people who were seen talking to UN truce mediators in the country.

As Hindu marriages are usually not registered under Pakistani laws, many Hindus are unable to provide proof of their marriages, making it impossible to acquire passports and other important documents.

Turkey claims that Armenians who perished were simply the victims of war.

Air travel between India and the Persian Gulf will likely have to be postponed or re-routed during that period.

Neither Venezuelan nor Cuban media have released any recent photos of the Socialist leader as they have during his previous jaunts to Havana.

In recent months, the new terror threat on Kenya has come from al-Shabab militants who rule much of neighboring Somalia