Nicky Oppenheimer discusses how business can contribute to development on the continent.

Cuts to pay and benefits for men and women in uniform wouldn't be a very popular idea, but there is room for targeted cuts to weapons programs.

North African upheavals and European economic pressures change security.

The Chinese economy and defense budgets have grown at an enormous rate over the past five years. Do you think that this will lead to global confrontation? Or will China have a "peaceful rise"?

Britain and other countries continue to bombard Gaddafi's positions, but the campaign appears to have reached a stalemate and the leader remains in charge.

Migrant workers and police clashed in southern China over reports a pregnant worker had been harassed by a security guard.

Indignant protesters flood Madrid's Sol square around midnight early Monday morning.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first U.S. official to publicly confirm the death of the al-Qaida operative behind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (June 11)

Martha Raddatz reports on the latest on the war in Afghanistan.

The White House condemned the action of Syrian President Bashar al Assad saying "Syria is on a dangerous path" and leaders in neighboring Turkey are accusing Syria of "savagery" as thousands of refugees flee for their lives. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

Massive waves - some of them nine meters high - batter the coast of Chile, following freak weather patterns in the region. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, says he will run for the top job at the International Monetary Fund.

On Sunday, despite picking up three and a half million more votes than in 2007, the CHP could only come second with nearly 26 percent of the vote.

Russ Mitchell spoke with retired General Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme allied commander, for insight on the escalating violence in Syria causing thousands to flee the country and NATO's future role in the military's operation in Libya.

At his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, the presumptive Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta offered few details on Afghanistan, and he said Iraq will ask the U.S. to keep troops beyond 2011.

Fawaz Gerges with the London School of Economics explains the implications of renewed fighting in Syria, Libya, Yemen.