Democrats Urge Obama to Take ‘Any Lawful Steps’ to Avoid Default

Democrats Urge Obama to Take ‘Any Lawful Steps’ to Avoid Default

Democrats Urge Obama to Take ‘Any Lawful Steps’ to Avoid Default

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 01:22 PM PST

Senate Democrats wrote to the president asking him to take any steps available in the face of Republican opposition to avoid a default on the national debt.

Reindeer hospital visit probed

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 09:10 AM PST

An internal review is carried out after a reindeer was taken round wards at Yorkhill Sick Children's Hospital in Glasgow.

350 food plant jobs under threat

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:29 AM PST

A lamb processing business on Anglesey may be forced to close with the loss of 350 jobs after losing a major deal with a supermarket.

Jerome Isaac Gets 50-Year Sentence for Burning Woman

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:32 PM PST

A Brooklyn judge who sentenced Jerome Isaac to prison called the crime one of the most brutal he had seen in his judicial career.

Common Sense: Economic Experts Give Predictions for 2013

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:34 AM PST

Experts who were accurate about 2012 offered their thoughts on stocks, bonds and real estate for this year.

Defiant villagers lead Irish debt resistance

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:53 PM PST

BALLYHEA, Ireland — A few hundred yards of road, a service station and a church are about all there is to see in Ballyhea. But the Irish hamlet in County Cork has become the center of Irish resistance to E.U.-imposed austerity.

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Somali pirate kingpin "Big Mouth" quits after naval crackdown

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:43 PM PST

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali pirate kingpin nicknamed "Big Mouth" has renounced a life of hijacking ships that earned him fame and fortune before an international naval crackdown that has curbed attacks on maritime commercial and pleasure craft.

WORLD: Obama and Karzai Hold Press Conference

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:17 PM PST

President Obama and President Hamid Karzai spoke about postwar Afghanistan at the White House on Friday.

Palestinian activists build E1 tent 'outpost'

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:25 PM PST

Informal settlement erected in contentious occupied West Bank area east of Jerusalem to create "facts on the ground".

Mammoth dust storm

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:58 AM PST

Amazing visuals show a mammoth dust storm passing over Western Australia after a large storm near Onslow.

Syria death toll: How does it compare?

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:38 AM PST

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since unrest began in the country nearly two years ago, according to the latest estimate from the United Nations.

How Paris killings could renew Kurdish flashpoint

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 08:07 AM PST

Three Kurdish women political activists were found dead with gunshots to the head early Thursday, police in Paris said, in an unexplained act of violence that has shocked the Kurdish community. CNN's Ivan Watson explains what the impact of the killings is likely to be, and how the conflict between Kurdish nationalists and Turkey affects the rest of the world.

In Czech Republic, a leading presidential candidate has a full-face tattoo

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:05 PM PST

File this under, "Things that could never happen in America." That man is Vladimir Franz, a Czech composer who is tattooed from head -- and face -- to toe, and he's third in the polls in the Czech Republic's presidential election, which is going on Friday and Saturday.

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U.S. Can Speed Afghan Exit, Obama Says

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:54 AM PST

After meeting with President Hamid Karzai, President Obama said gains made by Afghan forces would allow the United States to accelerate the withdrawal of troops in coming months.

Few U.S. adoptions likely to advance, Russian officials say

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST

MOSCOW — Russian officials were unable Friday to clarify the country's position on adoption of orphans by American parents but made it clear that in all likelihood only a handful of cases will go forward.

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U.S. Can Speed Afghan Exit, Obama Says

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:54 AM PST

After meeting with President Hamid Karzai, President Obama said gains made by Afghan forces would allow the United States to accelerate the withdrawal of troops in coming months.

Spain: Nuclear items for Iran seized

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:36 AM PST

It was not a routine traffic stop.

Duchess' first portrait is ... well ...

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST

The first official portrait of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery -- but has met with a mixed reaction from art critics and the public.

France taking on Islamist gangs in Mali

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:34 AM PST

French troops, on the ground and in the air in dusty and dangerous Mali, are taking the fight to radical Islamists there, French President Francois Hollande said Friday.

Bolivia achieves UN coca victory

Posted: 11 Jan 2013 11:46 AM PST

In a victory for President Evo Morales, Bolivia rejoins the UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs with the caveat that coca-chewing will remain legal there.

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