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US Hits Debt Ceiling The Hill reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is taking steps to prevent the US from defaulting after the government officially hit the …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, spent most of Sunday at the Manhattan Special Victims Unit in East Harlem as prosecutors sought additional evidence, including possible DNA evidence on …

Israeli confidence that Nakba day, marked by The Great March on May 15 in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel and neighbouring Arab countries, would remain under control, has backfired …

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by …

The last few weeks have brought some of the biggest news in some time, and shocked many long-term observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas, Fatah and the new …

United Nations - Afghanistan, once described as the graveyard of empires, is ranked number one as the country with the most “significant rise” in civilian deaths last year, turning …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director, International Monetary Fund. (Photo: The CBI)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - A newly inaugurated Michel Martelly promised to change the image of his disaster prone nation Saturday while leading it into a new era of modernity: a …

Doctors have noted that patients are becoming more conscious of medical costs. Fewer patients are requesting MRIs. (Photo: Just Us 3) The nation’s major health insurers are …

Offshore drilling rig at Huntington Beach, California. (Photo: Peter Bo Rappmund) Washington - President Barack Obama is responding to voter frustration over high gasoline prices and oil …