U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. endorsed Mitt Romney, saying Republicans need to abandon their purity test and nominate someone who can win against President Obama.
Few in Congo's Katanga copper belt are happy with local provincial governor Moise Katumbi's decision to return to business after five years in politics.
Egypt's Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has quit after less than three months in the post over the government's handling of a protest by Coptic Christians on Sunday night, an aide to Beblawi said on Tuesday.
A Slovak ruling party said it would abstain on Tuesday from a vote on expanding the euro zone's EFSF rescue fund, forcing the government to turn to opposition parties to push through a deal agreed by the currency bloc to contain the Greek debt crisis.
Ben and Jerry’s board of directors issued a statement, saying To those who Occupy: We stand with you.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced on Friday, and for the first time, three women split the prize. But, after a weekend of celebration, peace still isn't ubiquitous in either Liberia or Yemen, the homes of the laureates.
Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism more than two decades ago to rule for a second consecutive term after his center-right Civic Platform trounced rivals in an election, cheering the markets.
South African peace icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday on Friday in the church where he preached against apartheid, just a few days after saying the former liberation movement now in government was in some ways even worse.
It's been nine months since the beginning of the Arab Spring, and North African and The Middle East are still very much in turmoil.
Herman Cain holds an astounding 20-point lead over Mitt Romney in a poll of Republican primary voters, and he is in a statistical tie with President Obama.
Republicans need to stop looking for savior candidates and start focusing on the candidates they have, or they will end up like the 2004 Democrats: unable to present a compelling alternative to an unpopular incumbent.
Much of the media attention on Occupy Wall Street has centered on the lack of singular demands and unification amongst the hundreds of protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was given to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace advocate Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman.
When the Occupy Wall Street movement began, it seemed like one of those things that was interesting for a moment but likely to soon go away. Now, the movement has spread to other U.S. cities as offshoots of the so-called leaderless movement, we can see and understand that something much bigger is happening than just another protest.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen have won the Prize for their work on women's rights.
Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Moneyball pushes the theory that baseball games aren't won by the best players but rather by those who can just consistently get on base. And now comes The Ides of March to remind us that nothing in politics -- not ideas, not image, not intelligence -- matters as much as winning elections.
Egypt's leading liberal party Wafd has scrapped an electoral alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest political force, because it wants to field more candidates than the tie-up would have allowed, said a senior Wafd official.
Senate Democrats want to hit millionaires with a 5 percent surcharge on their taxes to pay for President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs program, but the plan seems to be going nowhere in the divided Congress.
Top world cocoa grower Ivory Coast has ramped up border security and warned cocoa dealers they could be prosecuted if they are caught smuggling beans to neighbouring countries, farmers and a government source said on Wednesday.
Egypt's army will not propose a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, its military ruler said on Wednesday, denying speculation that it may have in mind a military nominee who could be seen as out of step with a transition to democracy.
Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.
