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Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi while campaigning.

The principal opposition party, New Democracy, has demanded that Papandreou call early elections and insisted it will not accept any coalition government with the current Prime Minister.

Putin and his allies are widely expected to dominate Russia’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections over the next five months.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may consider reversing its tight monetary stance as inflationary woes begin to ebb next month, a top policy adviser said.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias Saturday in the drive for a new coalition government to save the nation from bankruptcy and prevent its debt crisis from spreading chaos across the Eurozone.

Libya's new interim prime minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib was a professor of electrical engineering and an entrepreneur who had to live in exile for 10 years because of pressure from the late Moammar Gadhafi's regime over his political views.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived by a narrow margin a parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday which is seen to leave the efforts of EU to fight the debt crisis on a firmer foundation.

U.S. stock investors have had to take their own self-help course on living with uncertainty due to Europe's crisis, and they may need to draw on that next week because it is completely unclear when the next upheaval will come.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has won a parliamentary confidence vote and avoided snap elections that would have affected Greece's bailout deal and the Eurozone's economic crisis.

One banner reportedly reads: “The cost of [the] crisis should be paid by the capitalists.”

Egypt's military rulers have provoked renewed criticisms that they are trying to perpetuate their power with a proposal that would give them broad powers to shape the country's forthcoming constitution.

An analysis of the recent developments in the Republican primary race.

Gunmen attacked a church in Nigeria late Thursday, killing at least two people.

Italy, under fierce pressure from financial markets and European peers, has agreed to have the IMF and the EU monitor its progress with long- delayed reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatization, senior EU sources said Friday.

It was announced Thursday that search engine giant Google will be tweaking its algorithm to produce fresher results, which will affect about 35 percent of what search results come up now.

The Iraq/Afghanistan Wars have been costly, but the United States' longer trend of spending too much on defense and not enough on public goods over two decades could end up costing the economy and the nation far more.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has struck a deal with ministers to step down and hand power to a negotiated coalition government if they help him win a confidence vote on Friday, government sources with knowledge of a cabinet meeting said.

Occupy Wall Street will fail if the major problems are not addressed.

Egypt's net foreign reserves slid by $1.93 billion last month, their worst drop since April, as investors dumped more treasury bills and other assets because of uncertainty over a peaceful transition to civilian rule, analysts said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo could offer up to 10 blocks in a new onshore hydrocarbon bid round possibly launched next year, a senior government official said on Thursday.

The question arises as pressure mounts on Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to step down after an odd couple of days in which he announced then withdrew a proposal to put the latest Eurozone rescue deal before the Greek citizenry as a referendum vote.