US President Barack Obama has criticised insurance firms for denying coverage to some and raising rates for their remaining customers.

Israel ‘risking peace talks’ with West Bank building by authorizing the building of 112 new apartments in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Hundreds of people, including many women and children, were killed [...]

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 [...]

US President Barack Obama global warming should be called ‘global weirding’.

California is caned three women after they were convicted for adultery under Islamic law, the first time that punishment has been handed out inside the country.

Visual Economics show youVerizon Wireless will allow its subscribers to make Skype calls on nine of its smartphones is [...]

Amidst privacy concerns, Google says it will revamp its Buzz social networking interface.

A majority of Germans want debt-ridden Greece to be thrown out of the euro zone if necessary.

Mr. Brainwash and Mr. Banksy are elusive.

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone company by subscribers, offered to buy the African operations of the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain [...]

With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, US President Barack Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

In the age of growing Chinese influence, Thailand becomes another nation that won’t stamp the Dalai Lama’s passport, [...]

The number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. has dropped by nearly one million, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security. It is the sharpest decline in three decades.

Boredom kills: People who are bored often are more likely to die at an early age, according an article in the International Journal of [...]