Anyone banking on a big-win breakthrough in Wednesday's nuclear talks with Iran will likely find themselves in the same boat as investors who bet on an instant surge in the Facebook stock price last week
The death of more than 100 soldiers in a suicide attack punctuates the fact that the terrorist franchise in the Arabian Peninsula is the most successful of Osama Bin Laden's offspring
The 5.9-magnitude quake that struck Italy on Sunday devastated local businesses already reeling from the recession and could make residents even more angry at the government if it doesn't step in to help
The campaign of Ahmed Shafik may look quixotic at first glance but the former aviation minister is likely to get Egypt's quiet but substantial national security vote.
Karzai's independent power base is minimal, as is his ability to influence the outcome of his country's civil war absent direct U.S. involvement. And that gives neither Karzai nor the Taliban much incentive to cut a deal with the other
A former Libyan intelligence agent, Megrahi died amid unresolved controversies: Whether he was freed to facilitate an oil deal; and whether he was guilty in the first place.