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rose by the same amount, but confidence among non-manufacturers worsened by 8 points to a record low of minus 39. Japan's finance minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, also said he would resign, after Japan's budget passes, over his embarrassing performance at a G7 weekend meeting in Rome. Nakagawa's untimely departure is a major blow to increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso. Analysts said As...

Countries must keep their promises to coordinate measures to revive the global economy rather than pleasing voters with protectionist policies, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

TOKYO - Japan sank deeper into recession with its worst quarterly contraction since the oil crisis in the 1970s, its reliance on exports and soft domestic demand dragging down the world's second-largest economy. Hillary Clinton, in Tokyo on her first trip abroad as U.S. secretary of state, said Asia and the United States must fight the global crisis together. The U.S.-Japanese relationship was...

Japan sank deeper into recession with its worst quarterly contraction in 35 years, data showed on Monday, its reliance on exports and soft domestic demand dragging down the world's second-largest economy.

U.S.-China expert says economic crisis and climate change will shape President Obama's relations with China.

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama's new envoy to the Middle East called for an end to Hamas weapons smuggling and a reopening of Gaza's borders.

The former US Senator and Northern Ireland envoy George Mitchell, the man chosen by President Obama, has been appointed as Middle East envoy by new US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday began questioning Eric Holder, as he braced himself for a Republican grilling him over some controversial decision in his confirmation hearing, his path to becoming the nation's first African-American, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general.

Senator Hillary Clinton said Monday that America's gravest threat is that terrorists will obtain weapons of mass destruction.

President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent CNN and CBS News, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next general surgeon.

Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton took the first step together in uniting the Democrat party since the divisive Democratic primary race ended, with a joint appearance on Friday in the aptly named New Hampshire town of Unity.

Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will appear together later today at a rally in Unity, New Hampshire, a town where they tied in the January primary with 107 votes each.

Beatings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, drunk driving and hookers. For video game fans, it can only mean one thing: Grand Theft Auto 4 is here, with all the subtlety of a shotgun blast.

Kenyan elders may impose a fine on U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, payable in livestock, after a photo of her rival Barack Obama in robes dragged their people into the race for the White House.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's experience in handling a national security crisis on Friday as polls showed her losing ground to Obama ahead of Tuesday's contests in Texas and Ohio.

Barack Obama holds a slight lead on Hillary Clinton in Texas and has almost pulled even in Ohio before contests that could decide their Democratic presidential battle, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Friday.

How did Democrat Hillary Clinton tumble from all-but-certain presidential nominee to endangered candidate fighting for her political life?

Kenyan elders demanded an apology from Washington on Thursday ahead of a planned protest over a controversial photo of U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama in traditional Somali dress.

Barack Obama has not asked black voters to back him solely because he could become the first black president in U.S. history, but for many African Americans the prospect remains tantalizing.

Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and prominent African-American lawmaker previously aligned with Sen. Hillary Clinton, switched to support rival Sen. Barrack Obama.

Former Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd will endorse Barack Obama in his bid for the White House on Tuesday, a source close to the Obama campaign said.