ELECTIONS

With time running out, rivals of surging Republican Rick Santorum raised doubts about his conservative record on Monday in hopes of heading off a last-minute victory by the former senator a day before Iowa kicks off the 2012 presidential election season.

In the aftermath of the war's “official cessation” in 2003, many more people continued to die, from both disease and periodic armed conflicts.

Bainimarama assured that the new constitution would guarantee equality to all Fijians, regardless of race and ethnicity.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in a surprise move, has opened an account on micro-blogging Web site Twitter. The 80-year-old, however, received mixed reactions and some sharp criticism, from his now fellow micro-bloggers.

The budget for 2012/13 ending March will be presented after elections scheduled in five states, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday.

It seems the act of supporting Ron Paul, in the run up to the 2012 U.S. presidential elections, has its own rewards. His loyal supporters are apparently prepared to go great lengths to ensure his success.

Dysfunctional politics threatens to deliver a protracted period of slow global growth, possibly lasting well beyond 2012, which will only deepen the political and economic problems for the West.

Mitt Romney narrowly leads rival Ron Paul in Iowa three days before the state kicks off the Republican Party's presidential nominating race, according to a Des Moines Register poll released on Saturday.

Newt Gingrich teared up at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday when talking about his mother, who died in 2003.

The U.S. Supreme Court would be barred from hearing cases challenging state laws on privacy, prayer and marriage.

Woken up without explanation and carried to a police vehicle on a stretcher, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been moved from a Kiev prison to a remote prison colony about 300 miles east of the capital on Friday, her party said.

For arguably the first time, the new dynamic of online advocacy has stepped into the political realm, targeting Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and his 2012 re-election bid. And an emboldened online community seems deadset on using the blunt force of an Election Day loss to change the Congressman's mind on key legislation.

Jamaica's opposition People's National Party (PNP) secured an upsetting 41- to 22-seat victory over the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) in Thursday's general elections, dispelling polls that had claimed the election would have been too close to call.

Has a Christian-Muslim war in Nigeria begun? Christian leaders are up in arms over Boko Haram while President Goodluck Jonathan frantically tries to cool boiling blood.

Colorado could face a persistent structural budget imbalance for many years to come despite a recovering economy, according to Wells Fargo economists.

Farmers have been blocking roads with burning tyres and refusing to sell their produce in a bid to force the government to prop up crop prices which they say barely cover costs, thus adding woes to Indian economy.

Strange as it may sound, the U.S. government has been accused of spreading cancer among South American leaders, by none other than the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.

Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman resigned Wednesday and endorsed rival Ron Paul, six days before Iowa voters begin the nomination process to select the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

From Rep. Ron Paul to former Speaker Next Gingrich, nine-year-old Ari Garnick has been making the rounds before the New Hampshire primary asking each GOP candidate one crucial question: if you could be any superhero, who would it be an why? Find their baffling, hilarious and surprising sincere answers here.

One-time Republican Primary frontrunner Rick Perry filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to get on Virginia's 2012 Republican Primary ballot after not producing enough signatures to meet requirements last week.

Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.