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The race to the White House remains close ahead of the US presidential election Tuesday, with national polls showing US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney in...

As the end of his final campaign nears, President Obama is thanking his supporters -- even with phone calls to people he has never met. "Hi Jim, this is...

This campaign has been long, uninspiring and negative, but it is still anyone's to win. In 48 hours, after the expenditure of upwards of $2.5bn and an even greater...

Tens of millions of Americans head to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama or hand the job to Republican Mitt Romney. The voting...

Broadcasters are overhauling their strategies on the side of caution -- to not err in calling key races. TV networks are marshaling a multimillion-dollar exit poll for Election Day,...

Greece is braced for a 48-hour general strike across public and private sectors in protest at a proposed new wave of spending cuts. Protest marches - which regularly end...

Spain today is not only grappling with major financial rebalancing; this coincides with a growing voice for separation in the autonomous region of Catalonia. Any nation-building referendums held on...

An Australian court has ruled that Standard & Poor’s misled investors in the way that it rated some investments. The agency gave its highest triple-A rating to investments known...

Few places around the world are likely to be more directly affected by the outcome of the US election than Iran. Under Obama the US has cranked up its...

Turkey is currently experiencing hard times. The hunger strikes in prisons over the Kurdish problem - which have been ongoing for more than 50 days and have left the...