Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Natan Sharansky discuss the prospects of freedom, democracy, and peace.

Music star Youssou N'Dour, a critic of incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade, has cancelled concerts to focus on becoming a candidate in upcoming presidential elections.

At least five people are killed and nearly a dozen injured when the roof of a building collapses in a suburban area of New Delhi, India.

Two British men are to be sentenced Wednesday, for the racially-motivated murder of a teenager in 1993. The case has gone on for years and led to significant changes in the British legal system.

The downturn in the euro zone's private sector economy eased slightly towards the new year thanks to an upturn in Germany but the region still looks on course for recession.

Iran wrapped up ten days of naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz and is continuing threats of closing off the key oil-shipping route if other nations enact tougher sanctions against the country.

Hundreds of demonstrators in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos shut petrol stations, formed human barriers along motorways and hijacked buses in protest of the shock doubling of fuel prices after a government subsidy was removed.

U.S. officials say it's clear that Iran is feeling the pressure from the international community over its nuclear program as well as its threats to close the Strait of Hormuz.

Two euro zone countries release contrasting jobs figures - unemployment in Spain increases for a fifth month while in Germany a record number of people are in employment.

While the death toll in Syria's unrest has climbed above 5,000, another side of the government crackdown has played out in the U.S.

Iran warned U.S. aircraft carrier Stennis not to return to the Persian Gulf, but U.S. officials rejected the threat.

Should the U.S. Navy be concerned?

Ron Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul, talks about Iran and the Republican candidates.

One analyst says Iran's missile test is just a bluff and fears of Iran's global influence are exaggerated.