ELECTIONS

The Wall Street Journal reported that Christie has been inundated by a relentless stream of calls to run for the White House.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's proclamation that he will again run for President has angered his longtime Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin. On Saturday, Kudrin responded by saying that Putin's decision will not allow me to be a part of the new government.

The Mongolian government will seek to accelerate the timetable to increase its stake in the country's giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project to 50 percent, Mining Minister Dashdorj Zorigt said on Sunday.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto will respond to any request from the Mongolian government to discuss its investment in the country's giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold deposit, but still expects the original 2009 agreement to be honoured.

Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, expects to raise its output this year to the point that it could account for half of the world's production, President Alassane Ouattara said on Saturday.

Libya's interim rulers said Sunday they had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 1,270 inmates killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at a Tripoli prison.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah announced Sunday that women will have the right to vote for the first time beginning in 2015.

S.N.L. takes on Perry, Bachmann, Romney and whole Republican cast on the opening of the show Saturday night.

Ending the ongoing speculations in Russia over the next presidential candidate from the ruling United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday accepted President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to stand for president in March 2012.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.

Banda conceded to Sata on Friday, ending three days of riots and protesting. The presidential vote was held nationwide on Tuesday, but the government had been slow to tally the votes, a fact which angered eager Zambians.

Sata has long complained about undue Chinese influence upon the Zambian economy and political life.

After 85 of 150 voting districts have been tallied, Sata leads the race with 43 percent of the vote, compared to President Banda's 36 percent. However, Banda still leads in the most recent opinion polls.

Zambia held presidential elections Tuesday, but two days later only 85 of the country's 150 constituencies have reported results, sparking wide-scale unrest in the country and again bringing up fraud allegations. While all eyes are on Zambia, one nation's gaze is especially fixed: China.

Lal Krishna Advani, the 83-year-old veteran of opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said on Wednesday he did not want to run for prime minister again in elections due by 2014, a move that frees up younger candidates to challenge the government.

In an interview with Newsmax, a conservative news magazine, former President Bill Clinton told founder and CEO Christopher Ruddy that Obama’s approach to tackling the deficit was “a little confusing,” and said that President Obama should not increase taxes in this economy.

Is the United States capable of tax reform? U.S. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., thinks so. Still, U.S. tax code revisions are arduous because they go to the core of the United States -- commerce -- and a tax code alteration can result in a change to a company's or group's slice of the economic pie.

Twitter executives announced that they will start selling political advertisements, seeking for the first time to profit off of the social media tool's role as a forum for political activity and debate.

Multiple Republican-led states have passed new election laws that severely hamper certain groups' ability to vote, a move that many Democrats see as a move to weaken their base ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

Top Congressional Republicans on Tuesday took the unusual step of telling the Federal Reserve to refrain from further intervention in the economy on the eve of the central bank's policy decision.

Libya will likely name a new government within 10 days, interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said, raising hopes of political progress in the fractured country weeks after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.