ELECTIONS

Tea Party sweetheart Michelle Bachmann has topped longtime Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in a recent 2012 presidential election poll of the state of Iowa.

President Barack Obama is pushing for deeper cuts in the U.S. budget that some key Republicans.

Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur is in the grip of unrest, with protests against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government demanding electoral reforms, in a rare display of spill over effect of the Arab Spring into the Southeast Asian Muslim-dominated nation. Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1400 people in the capital on Saturday.

Minutes after learning of an uptick in unemployment in the month of June, Michelle Bachmann quickly wasted no time in using the report as a barometer on Obama's economic policies.

Egyptians are protesting military trials this week, with the largest protest slated to erupt Friday.

A powerful Egyptian leader claims that the September 11th terrorist attacks were made in the USA and the Holocaust is a lie, in a recent interview with The Washington Times.

An exiled prime minister's sister has taken the political seat in Thailand, perhaps ushering back her ousted sibling.

The sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won Sunday's general elections in Thailand.

Ben Ali left in January, but it's old tricks in Tunis, according to Tunisian politicians.

Just after four days of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fortune turning brighter, the French economist and politician will again have to face some more or many more court proceedings.

A group of hackers, known as AntiSec, claimed to have a list of 27 usernames and passwords taken from an SQL database from an online surveys hosted on an Apple Inc. Business Intelligence site on Sunday.

The international Egyptian community is planning to take to the streets this Friday, both in North Africa and the Tri-State area.

Yingluck Shinawatra, the 44-year-old youngest sister of the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, of the Puea Thai Party, is challenging the Democrat incumbent Abhisit Vejjajiva in Sunday’s general polls.

In a remarkable reversal of fate, evidence is pouring in to prove to that Dominique Strauss Kahn was probable the hunted one, rather than the hunter. According to the latest reports, the Guinean hotel maid, who accused the former IMF chief of sexually assaulting in a New York hotel, has probably been a prostitute who milked hefty tips from male guests in return of sexual favors.

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez confirmed on Thursday he is a cancer patient. The controversial leader, who has been a thorn on the side of the United States for more than a decade, said from Havana, Cuba, that he had undergone a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.

Stephen Colbert, who hosts Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, has received approval from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to form his own Super PAC.

The sexual assault case against disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is falling apart as the investigators have found evidence for lies, prevarication and possible criminal links of his accuser, a Manhattan hotel maid.

In the most memorable Fourth of July recall, here is the transcript, the significance and media excerpts of interpretations of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech in the Independence Hall.

The Russian Prime Minister promised that his party will run a harsh and forceful presidential campaign.

Could Thaksin Shinawatra reclaim power in the country from which he was exiled?

Shawn Carter felt an overriding sense of freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of thought, and the freedom to express both - when his parents, both founding members of a Baptist church, kicked him out of their home after he stopped attending. It became one of the defining moments of his life, he said.