Palash Ghosh

Famed analyst Meredith Whitney, who ignited a firestorm of controversy last December when she warned that the U.S. will witness waves and waves of bond defaults by state and municipal governments (costing up to hundred billion dollars) reiterated her gloomy prediction.

NATO will not place any ground troops on Libyan soil after the civil war there is over, according to Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

NATO defense ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the progress of the ongoing military campaign in Libya, as NATO missiles continue to mercilessly bomb the compound of Moammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.

A famous letter about Jews written by a young Adolf Hitler has been put on display in New York’s Museum of Tolerance.

Micro-cap stocks occupy an unusual niche in equity investing.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Speech At the International Monetary Conference, Atlanta, Ga. on June 7, 2011

The election this weekend in Turkey is expected to bring an easy victory to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

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.

Just under 23 percent of all home mortgages across the United States are currently “under water,” according to a report by CoreLogic, the information, analytics and business services firm.

Rock legend and hunting enthusiast Ted Nugent has praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for declaring he will only eat what he kills.

Low-flying NATO jets have reportedly conducted a rare daytime bombing campaign on Tripoli, Libya, setting off huge explosions and also striking the military barracks and compound of Moammar Gaddafi.

The Saudi Arabian interior ministry said that two of its border guards were killed by a man with a machine gun who tried to cross into Yemen, before being shot dead by Saudi forces.

The amount of radiation that leaked from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in the first week after the disastrous tsunami struck is more than double the original estimate, according to the country’s nuclear safety agency.

There is renewed evidence that Iran is providing weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan – weapons that are used to kill both Afghan and foreign troops in the country.

Last May, six Asian women were elected to the British Parliament; and there are expectations that this number will increase in the coming years.

The State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 pages of former Governor Sarah Palin’s emails on Friday morning, according to a report on msnbc.com.

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.

Alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic, who is facing charges of genocide at a court in The Hague after extradition from Serbia, has had his army pension unblocked, according to his attorney

Turkish political leaders have blasted an editorial in The Economist magazine which called for the country’s voters to support the opposition in this weekend’s election.

Syrian state news claimed that at least 40 of the government’s security officers and policemen were killed by “armed gangs” in an ambush and bombing in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour.

Tens of thousands of irate Greeks staged a huge rally in central Athens on Sunday to protest the government’s plan to deepen spending cuts and increase taxes even further to meet terms of its bailout from the European union and International Monetary Fund.

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.

A group of major western pharmaceutical companies announced that they will significantly reduce the prices they charge for vaccines in the developing world.

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has visited with Libyan rebel groups in the eastern part of the country in a bid to support and uphold the opposition movement seeking to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power.

A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to thirty years in prison for graft and corruption.

This Monday, June 6, will be the 67th anniversary of the most decisive battle of World War II which finally turned the tide against Nazi Germany and ultimately paved the way for an Allied Victory in the European Theatre.

A weaker than expected May jobs report and downward revisions to the March and April releases has rekindled fears of either a double dip recession or a stagflationary economic environment.

French officials are working behind the scenes with close associates of Moammar Gaddafi in order to convince the Libyan leader that he must step down from power.

In a rare and unusual protest, women marched in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday protesting xenophobic attacks on foreign immigrants, primarily Somalis and Pakistanis, many of whom have set up shops in the shanty towns.