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AS MUCH a verbal brawl as a discussion of policy, the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ended in a draw—at least if points were being...

President lands blows on Romney over Benghazi, women and tax, and heads to Iowa and Ohio before third debate next week. Barack Obama hit the campaign trail only hours after...

The Senate race in Pennsylvania has become "too close to call" three weeks before the election, while President Barack Obama's lead in the state has slipped from 12 to...

The United States and Turkey are primary actors in an international arena which is presently experiencing an important reposition in power. These two countries are tardily adapting to their...

A new word is entering the political lexicon: binders. Mitt Romney's citation of "binders" in Tuesday's debate -- during a discussion of efforts to hire more women when he...

Newsweek, the venerable US weekly magazine covering current events, will publish its final print edition on Dec. 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, two top...

German Chancellor Angela Merkellaid down the law to her EUcolleagues today just hours ahead of a summit, calling for Brussels to control their budgets so as to bolster the bloc's shaky...

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Thursday rejected reported allegations from Western intelligence sources that it plans to damage an oil tanker in the Gulf to create an environmental disaster....

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, who starred in the iconic 1974 eroticFrench film "Emmanuelle" and over 50 other movies, died in her sleep overnight after suffering from cancer, her agent said...

Now that the dust has settled in the New Mexico desert where supersonic skydiver "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner landed safely on his feet, researchers are exhilarated over the possibility his...