The Brazilian government has announced trade sanctions against a variety of American goods in retaliation for illegal US subsidies to cotton farmers.

The EU warned the United States against protectionism after a European-led consortium pulled out of the bidding for an Air Force contract, saying the terms had been altered to favor a [...]

Iraq’s second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion has been hit by multiple attacks, with at least 35 people being killed.

US President Barack Obama warns of more health insurance premium hikes to come without up or down vote as he receives no “straight answer” from health insurance CEOs.

The European Commission is planning [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) began to make the case for using a majority-vote process to move the final piece of health care reform through the Senate and he slammed the procedure’s GOP critics. Known as budget reconciliation, the maneuver requires 51 votes and can’t be filibustered. In related news, Senate Minority Leader [...]

The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish settlements blocs would always remain part of the state of Israel. His remarks came hours after a visit by US envoy George Mitchell who [...]

Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for hours.

With Haiti in ruins and the needy closer to home bearing the brunt of a sour economy, the transformation of [...]

Israel will build barrier along its southern border with Egypt to stop illegal crossings, the prime minister said.

Google is being inundated with complaints about its Nexus One phone, because of the lack of helpline support.

China has said it overtook the United States to become the world’s biggest car and van market in 2009.

The big freeze, [...]

More than $100m changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese university.

According to a Vanity Fair article, in 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated [...]