Palash Ghosh

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou efforts to impose more austerity measures on his already-beleaguered nation struck a roadblock when key government figures said they would not back any further spending cuts or tax hikes.

Amidst growing fears that cash-strapped Greece will likely default on its huge debt, one major foreign voice has declared that Athens may have no choice other than to restructure its debt.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned the speech given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the US Congress and asserted that his policies will not lead to a lasting peace.

Protests have erupted in Spain in response to the country’s devastatingly poor economy, high unemployment and the government’s draconian austerity measures that affect mostly the middle class.

Peter Fonda has made some vague threats against US President Barack Obama.

A Shia cleric widely known for his criticism of the Shia Hezbollah has been arrested in Lebanon on charges of collaborating with and spying for Israel, according to Lebanon security officials.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons will stand trial for the killing of protesters by state security forces during the unrest in February that deposed him for power, according to Egyptian media.

According to reports in the French website Atlantico.fr, DNA samples taken in the sexual assault charge confirmed traces of his sperm on a dress worn by the hotel chambermaid who was allegedly raped by the former boss of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Despite being the ‘heir apparent’ to the top post of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde has cautioned that her candidacy might be premature.

Under enormous pressure from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Greek government has commenced a program to sell of certain domestic assets in order to reduce the country’s burdensome debt.

Scottish airline Loganair has cancelled 36 flights in response to the threat from the volcanic ash.

The principal attorney for Dominique Strauss-Kahn is confident that his client will be acquitted of sexual assault charges he faces

There are conflicting reports coming out of Pakistan and Afghanistan regarding the whereabouts (and very existence) of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reputed head of the Taliban.

Folk-rock legend Bob Dylan, who turns 70 years old tomorrow, suffered from an addiction to heroin at the height of his career in the 1960s and contemplated suicide, according to a report on BBC.

The European Union (EU) will implement sanctions on the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, in an effort to force the Damascus government to cease its violent campaign against anti-regime protesters, according to reports.

Six prominent opposition lawmakers in Turkey have resigned in connection with a sex scandal, just ahead of national elections next month.

Since the shocking discovery (and subsequent) assassination of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in early May in a compound in Pakistan, rumors have swirled that authorities in Islamabad have been harboring and protecting the world’s most wanted man all these years.

Indian business executive Ratan Tata has blasted the work ethic of British employees and managers.

One of the top labor leaders in the U.S. has accused House Speaker John Boehner of “blackmailing”America for his refusal to vote to lift the debt ceiling in the absence of significant spending cuts.

Israel opposition leader Tzipi Livni blasted Netanyahu for “harming the relationship” between the US and Israel by challenging Obama in Washington today.

Former president George W. Bush is earning big bucks making speeches, with a fee of between $100,000 and $150,000 per appearance.

Police in Pakistan said they have thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting a potential suicide bomber and two of his associates in the city of Karachi.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have left his prison cell after posting $1-million bail, but he might not have a place to live in the outside world.

Prominent Republicans have strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal to redraw the map of Israel to pre-1967 borders, on the eve of talks between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

European officials largely endorsed US President Barack Obama’s call for a reshaping of the Israel-Palestine map by reverting to the borders in place before the Six Day War of 1967.

An unmanned U.S. drone missile strike in the Taliban-controlled North Waziristan province of Pakistan has killed at least six suspected militants on Friday, according to local officials.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn will receive an annual pension in excess of $318,000 from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after having resigned as its chief as he prepares for a rape trial in New York, according to a report from ABC News.

The government of the Netherlands has granted asylum to a former Turkish judge who claimed he was persecuted over his views on the treatment of Armenians and Kurds.

In mid 2009, the United States feared that a Pakistani militant group would launch another terrorist attack in India similar to the Mumbai massacre of November 2008 which killed about 170 people, said a report in The Hindu, an Indian English-language daily newspaper.