The most important news for Friday, March 12th, 2010....
Twin suicide blasts in Lahore, Pakistan killed at least 43 people and injured at least 100 others on Friday in a high-security area with a dense military presence.
Russia is calling a decision by the Israeli government to build new settlement homes in East Jerusalem "unacceptable".
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not plan to attend the historic reopening of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the Israeli army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours and has tightened security around the old city of Jerusalem temporarily for security reasons.
Due to a shortage of cash, officials in at least half a dozen U.S. states are considering freezing tax refunds - in one case for as long as five months.
Approximately 5 million to 7 million U.S. properties are potentially eligible for foreclosure but have not yet been repossessed and put up for sale.
Protesters in Greece clashed violently with riot police as more than 10,000 people marched through central Athens during a nationwide general strike against the government's harsh new austerity measures in the aftermath of the Greek debt crisis.
Is the U.K. next? Many financial analysts are warning that Europe's banks need to brace for a massive U.K. debt crisis.
One prominent financial analyst is asking this question: "Is China Actually Bankrupt?"
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank says that U.S. taxpayers are most definitely on the hook for $5 trillion in debt accumulated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
A little-noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled Americans who owe the U.S. government money.
A new report has found that the implosion of Lehman Brothers was in part triggered by excessive capital demands from JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup.
But it turns out that Lehman Brothers was involved in some very naughty accounting as well.
Barack Obama and China are trading barbs with one another over currency policy.
Rescue and recovery workers who were exposed to a toxic brew of smoke and dust in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks have been awarded 650 million dollars in a compensation deal struck in New York.
A federal judge has handed ACORN yet another major judicial victory.
It turns out that Barack Obama supports taking DNA samples from people when they are arrested.
Thousands of Nigerian women dressed in black and carrying Bibles, wooden crosses, pictures of victims, and branches symbolizing peace marched in a central Nigerian state on Thursday to protest the massacre of about 500 Christian villagers by Islamic radicals.
A while back, in broad daylight and in full view of witnesses, a group of 4 Islamic radicals in the southern Egyptian city of Attaleen fired 31 bullets into the head of a Coptic Christian before beheading him. The dead body was then dragged in the street, accompanied by shouts of victory. But now an Egyptian court has acquitted the four Muslim men accused of committing the crime.
The government of Morocco is attempting to fend off criticism about its decision to expel 20 foreign Christian aid workers it accuses of trying to convert Muslims.
After a student at one community college in California gave a speech in class about his Christian beliefs, the instructor refused to give him a grade and instead wrote on his evaluation form, "Ask God what your grade is."
The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a "no-adults-welcome" panel at the United Nations this week where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled "Healthy, Happy and Hot."
Five same-sex couples married in Mexico on Thursday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to perform same-sex marriages.
"White-nose syndrome", a disease that has decimated bat populations across the East Coast of the United States, appears to have spread to bats in Maryland.
The second ever tropical cyclone to form in the South Atlantic has been spotted about 180 miles off the coast of Brazil.
Fast food restaurants are scrambling to find alternate sources for tomatoes after a winter freeze took a huge bite out of Florida's tomato harvest.
A divided federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the reference is the Pledge of Allegiance to "one nation under God" doesn't violate a citizen's right to be free of state-mandated religion.
A "monster mushroom" that covers 2,200 acres of the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon is being described as the biggest living thing in existence.
Lastly, a 10 year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop genetically modified rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and "muscular" shoulders.
