In a show of conservative enthusiasm, a tea-party backed Republican vanquished six-term Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a GOP primary and North Carolina voters decided overwhelmingly to strengthen

A second round of talks to form a coalition government in Greece has collapsed, with the country's future in the euro and commitment to its international bailout deal in the balance and the

North Carolina's Democratic lieutenant governor and the former Republican mayor of Charlotte will square off in November to succeed one-term Democratic incumbent Gov. Beverly Perdue after primary

Six-term Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar was routed by the right flank of his own Republican Party on Tuesday, and North Carolina voters decided overwhelmingly to strengthen their state's gay marriage

The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial threat to the United States that could undermine

In the gritty, working class Algiers suburb of Harrache, activists sporting the green baseball caps of the Islamist "Green" alliance hand out election leaflets outside their party headquarters,

The smoldering debate over European austerity flared hotter Tuesday as the left-wing politician trying to form a new Greek government declared that his country is no longer bound by its pledges to

The head of a left-wing party opposed to the terms of Greece's bailout agreements was meeting with the country's president to receive the mandate to seek coalition partners and try to form a