Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has the “strong support” of the Labor caucus, Treasurer Wayne Swan said in an interview aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. today.
Sauli Niinistoe, the candidate of the ruling National Coalition Party, is favored to win today’s Finnish presidential run-off election as the Nordic nation shows its support for his group’s pro-Europe policies.
A winter storm battered much of Italy, bringing arctic temperatures to the north and snow as far south as Naples, disrupting transport and commerce across the country.
The U.S. government said the online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group.
London’s Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, is cutting flights tomorrow because of “adverse weather conditions,” according to International Consolidated Airlines Group SA’s British Airways unit.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s supporters mobilized thousands for the biggest demonstration in Moscow in two decades as they sought to steal the spotlight from rival protests against electoral fraud.
Failure by the United Nations Security Council to deliver global condemnation of Syria gives President Bashar al-Assad room to continue his 11-month crackdown on protesters.
AP - Wet weather will ease Sunday across the Midwest as a winter storm treks eastward. The system will also advance southeastward from the mid-Mississippi River Valley, moving over the Tennessee Valley and into the Appalachians.
AP - Military officials say a Marine's wife and mother of two killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was a 31-year-old from Hudson, Iowa.
AP - Overwhelming "human gridlock" in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village was causing police to rethink crowd control Saturday on the eve of the big game.
AP - The Navy says eight sailors have been discharged after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship.
AP - A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday after they got lost while picking mushrooms and survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest, taking shelter part of the time in a hollowed-out tree.
Reuters - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe.
The Dodd-Frank banking overhaul signed by President Obama has sent campaign cash flowing to Romney, who says he would repeal the law
Reuters - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft and voter fraud.
AP - A couple and their adult son have been found injured but alive in Southern Oregon, six days after they disappeared from their campsite to go mushroom picking.
Reuters - An Arizona city council candidate struck from the ballot over her limited English skills concedes she isn't fluent in the language but called the legal challenge an abuse of power that could keep her from serving a poor border community where most residents speak only Spanish.
AP - Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.
AP - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.
Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.
AP - Overwhelming crowds and reports of injuries and arrests in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village are causing police to rethink crowd control before the game.
Reuters - The U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.
AP - Mr. Berndt's third-grade classroom was up on the second floor, tucked away at the rear of Miramonte Elementary School, its windows looking out onto a playground.
AP - There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south from the Panhandle for a family funeral. A young man coming home from bowling.
AP - Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.
AP - The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Ukrainian authorities to quickly resolve the criminal case brought against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).
Reuters - Police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields arrived at the site where protesters with the "Occupy" movement have been staging a demonstration since October, but it was not immediately clear whether they would evict the protesters.
Employment climbed more than forecast in January and the U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest in three years, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014.
Google Inc., whose chairman has served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, is a sponsor of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, co-hosted by the Tea Party.
Obama’s critics call for a return to Reaganomics, but the Gipper’s downturn was no match for this one
Stand aside, Mark Wahlberg: The active-duty Navy SEALs who star in "Act of Valor" are taking your job
Businessweek’s Roben Farzad talks about the list of suitors bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He spoke in NY on Jan. 31
The gaming company faces big losses amid a two-year sales slump
Moving away from the kroon boosted growth, raised trade, and lowered interest rates
Big players swing for the fences in a wild battle to overpay for the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers
Players in the Dodgers Ownership Contest
Dozens of technology companies boosted payroll by at least 50% in the past two years
Low-end handsets have set off a smartphone boom in China
A soaring currency hits Aussie winemakers on two fronts: Higher prices hurt their exports, and lower prices on imports shrink sales at home
The Korean automaker uses its high-quality, low-price strategy to compete with Volkswagen
As federal aid piles up, MBA programs like the experience soldiers bring to the study of corporate leadership
The promotion of Thorsten Heins from chief operating officer to chief executive at Research in Motion is viewed on Wall Street as "cosmetic" change