Demonstrators demanding the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak took over new ground, expanding their protests to the parliament building a few blocks from their encampment at Tahrir Square.
While U.S. and European firms are waking up to Africa's accelerating growth, companies based on the continent also are expanding. From an abandoned farm outside Lagos, Nigeria, a Zambian beef processor is moving into one of Africa's most promising markets.
After 219 years as the citadel of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange was near an agreement to be acquired by Deutsche Börse in a deal that would create the world's largest financial exchange.
Italian prosecutors requested that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stand trial on charges of patronizing an underage prostitute and abusing his powers in an attempt to cover up the relationship.
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A leading news anchor accused the Mexican president's office of pushing her employers to fire her after she discussed on a radio program allegations that the president suffered from drinking problems and demanded he respond.
German Bundesbank President Axel Weber is no longer seeking the presidency of the European Central Bank, euro-zone officials said, throwing the race for Europe's top monetary position into disarray.
A suicide bomber attacked a group of soldiers during their morning exercises in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 10 soldiers, security officials said.
Thailand's prime minister plans to call national elections by the middle of this year, even as a border conflict with Cambodia threatens to complicate his party's bid to remain in power.
A local council's effort to evict a mosque from an abandoned industrial site in east London demonstrates Britain's shifting appetite for multiculturalism, which U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has proclaimed "dead."
The emotional meeting of a man and a boy believed to be his missing son has drawn fresh attention to China's child abductions and to new efforts to use the Internet to find lost children.
Taiwan arrested a military general on suspicion of spying for China in the most high-profile cross-Strait espionage case in decades.
Jordan's influential Islamist party said it is prepared to wait up to a year for the government to craft a new election law, in a sign that King Abdullah II has bought himself time to introduce political reforms.
Brazil announced plans to cut 50 billion reais, or about $30 billion, from 2011 spending, an admission by the month-old government of President Dilma Rousseff that years of rising government outlays have helped inflame a worrisome rise in inflation.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told lawmakers that President Obama will send the South Korea free-trade agreement to Congress in the coming weeks, and hopes to finalize similar deals with Colombia and Panama.
Officials from South and North Korea ended two days of talks without agreeing to higher-level discussions, closing for now a slim opening they had created to discuss a flare-up of tension over the past year.
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Israelis are preparing for a more adversarial regime in Egypt, one they expect could lead their country to expand its army, fortify the two countries' desert frontier and possibly re-invade the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian military's takeover of many policing duties from the notorious internal security forces hasn't stopped a series of abuses, including allegations of torture, beatings, arbitrary arrests and disappearances.
Political unrest, now moving into its third week with no signs of abating, has delivered a body blow to Egypt's critical tourism sector, which accounted for more than 5% of the economy last year.
Yemen's sanctioned opposition leaders, put on the defensive by the Internet-aided revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, are scrambling to exert influence over the country's own budding online-activist movement.
Egyptian thugs for hire fueled and at times led the push to intimidate demonstrators around Cairo in recent weeks, say eyewitnesses.
Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who has become a rallying symbol for the demonstrator, addressed a crowd in Cairo Tuesday evening. Mr. Ghonim administered a Facebook page that helped spark the uprising.
Northern China records the latest-arriving snow in 60 years, volunteer programmers develop an app to help find abducted children, Egypt wends its way into the discussion despite censorship and more.
A special judicial magistrate for Central Bureau of Investigation cases declined to accept an application by the agency to close the investigation into the murders of teenager Aarushi Talwar, who was found dead in her bedroom in May 2008, and Hemraj, a domestic worker.
Hakuho expresses regret over a match-rigging scandal engulfing sumo, Prime Minister Naoto Kan debates with the leader of the largest opposition party, Emperor Akihito to undergo medical tests, and more.
The latest meeting between the two Koreas seemed to be more about image and PR positioning than getting something done.
In a break from taking to the street in anger at the lack of government, Belgians take to the street to protest high income taxes.
The comments attributed to Deutsche Bundesbank President Axel Weber Wednesday are infuriatingly vague but are the strongest hint yet that he will not be the next president of the European Central Bank.
Saturday's soccer match between Manchester United and Manchester City of the English Premier League, will be the most expensive game played in any sport, at any time, anywhere on the planet Earth.
In today's pictures, an Afghan boy rides his bike, a camel nuzzles up to a Pakistani laborer, Sri Lankans rally to demand a former army leader's release and more.
There's gratitude for you. The U.K. banks have spent 10 weeks negotiating Project Merlin with the Treasury. Then they heard Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on the radio announcing a further $1.29 billion increase in the U.K. bank levy.
Maria Altmann lived quietly in Los Angeles for decades before she was unexpectedly able to recover a trove of Gustav Klimt paintings confiscated from her family by the Nazis.
Ireland's government-in-waiting has come up with the outlines of a plan to deal with the massive burden of bank debt guaranteed by the government-that-was.
Kids everywhere dream of zooming around in fast cars. Across Europe, a growing number actually do—some even before they're out of diapers.