Six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in Africa.

What would it take to close the economic gender gap in Mexico by 10% in the next 3 years?

The French middle class is a much-coveted segment of society in the ongoing campaign ahead of the country's presidential election. AFPTV explores the daily life of a so-called middle-class family in the Paris outskirts, and the bag of tricks it takes it to get by.

Advance team leader Colonel Ahmed Himmiche acknowledged on Tuesday that a hard-won UN military observer mission to oversee a Syria ceasefire will be 'difficult.'

Police vehicle runs over a woman and her two children during protests in Peru.

The chairman of the 2012 London Olympic organising committee is optimistic, 100 days before the games officially open. Sebastian Coe and his team enter the final stretch seemingly with plenty to do but no major crises to overcome.

Osama bin Laden's family is expected to be deported from Pakistan early on Wednesday, their lawyer and an intelligence official said, 11 months after the US raid that killed the Al-Qaeda kingpin.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly hiked its global growth forecasts for this year and 2013, but warned that Europe's debt crisis and high oil prices could derail recovery. News coverage of economic outlook delivered by Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist.

The Secret Service and Pentagon prostitution investigation is growing. CBS News has learned that at least 20 women were involved, as well as Army Special Forces troops.

In an interview with CBS News chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Secret Service and military personnel brought 20 or 21 women to a hotel in Colombia in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes.

Iran is flaunting its military strength and warning the U.S. against intervening in its affairs – actions that underscore Western fears that Tehran isn’t serious about giving up its uranium enrichment.

An appeal has gone out to the wife of the Syrian president to do what others have so far failed to achieve.

Sen. John McCain tells  Christiane Amanpour that the U.S. can intervene in Syria with the help of other nations.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice tells Christiane Amanpour the cease-fire in Syria is in jeopardy.