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Italy's upper chamber, the Senate, will debate and vote Friday on austerity measures demanded by the EU to avoid a eurozone breakdown, while a new emergency government could take over Silvio Berlusconi's administration within days.

Rick Perry's debate meltdown last night went down as one of the all-time political blunders. The IBTimes countdown the top seven.

In another overheard exchange with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit two weeks ago, Franch President Nicholas Sarkozy allegedly described Greek minister George Papandreou as 'crazy' and 'depressed', according to French newspaper Le Parisien. The conversation hit the headlines when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "liar"

A leaked exchanged between Nicolas Sarkozy and US president Barack Obama, in which French president allegedly called Israeli Prime Minister "a liar" provoked a mediastorm. But does Benyamin Netanyahu have a reputaion for duplicity?

The White House administration have released a statement saying that there is no evidence that extraterrestrials exist, nor that any aliens have ever tried to contact humans.

In an overheard exchange with U.S. President Barack Obama at the G20 summit last week, French President Nicohlas Sarkozy allegedly called Benjamin Netanyahu a 'liar.'

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has confessed that there is no deal on the table to fund the IMF or a Eurozone firewall which has sent markets tumbling across the world.

With the attention of world leaders firmly on Greece, the talks at the G20 summit in Cannes appear to have hit a brick wall, according to reports.

European and world leaders at the G20 will discuss the prospect of an EU without Greece having come to terms for the first time that a Greek default is a real possibility.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been labeled as a wife-beater and philanderer by German's spy agency BND, according to secret files discovered by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, expert and author of several books on the organisation.

Israel has announced it will instigate the building of 2,000 settler homes in the West Bank and freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax funds to punish Palestine for joining UNESCO.

The G20 Summit, starting November 3, has been plunged into confusion as the shock announcement of a Greek referendum on the Eurozone bail-out has sparked anger among world leaders and confusion on the world markets.

The 29-second earthquake which struck Turkey has killed at least 138 people. The country continues to reel in hundreds of aftershocks, received in less than ten hours, one of which was at 6.0 magnitude strong enough to create more damages.

LIbya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed in a cross fire, moments after being captured trying to flee his birthplace of Sirte, officials from the NTC have said, and latest reports suggest the authorities are now planning a secret burial within the next few hours.

With reports that the former Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi has been killed, here is a timeline of the civil war in Libya since protests against Gaddafi broke out in February.

Prince William has been named the "Most Influential Man of the Year" in an online poll, beating the likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney currently leads the field vying for the Republican presidential nomination as Barack Obama faces deep disappointment from voters, a new poll suggests.

Italian Prime Minister Sergio Berlusconi caused another scandal when he joked that the Forzia Italia (Go Italy) party should change its name to "Go Pussy" to improve its ratings in the polls.

Following the slew of alleged incidents of police brutality by New York police against Occupy Wall Street protesters, hacker collective Anonymous has issued a series of statements attacking U.S. President Barack Obama.

With Apple's iconic co-founded now deceased, the IBTimes pays tribute to the tech-genius, sharing a video showing Steve Jobs discuss his fears and beliefs about dying.

Tributes have poured in following Steve Jobs' untimely death, including messages from Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and President Barack Obama.

Following the death of Apple's iconic former leader Steve Jobs, President Barack Obama has joined fans across the world tweeting his own eulogy to Apple's fallen icon.

Apple’s chairman and ex-CEO has been found dead just a few hours ago days after the iPhone 4S launch.

Britain's FTSE 100 index opened sharply higher Tuesday, tracking strong gains in Wall Street and in Asia, as European investors are becoming increasingly hopeful that euro zone officials will find a way to stem Greece's debt crisis.

As the date set for the Palestinian UN statehood bid approaches, tensions between the supporters and opponents to the planned request are mounting, and with the U.S publicly opposing the bid, Obama's image in the Muslim world is set to dwindle even more.

After years of rights group fighting the law, the ban against gays serving openly in the U.S. military, usually known as thee "Don't ask, don't tell" policy has finally been repealed, ending a policy under which more than 14,000 men and women were discharged.

Ten years after 9/11 many analysts still insist the U.S. response to the attacks by waging a war on terror and invading Iraq and Afghanistan is yet another illustration of the country's struggle to operate outside of the cold war mentality which saw it become the hegemon.

A decade after the attacks on New York and Washington, has the American and British "war on terror" made either the Western or the Islamic world signficantly safer place, or has it simply bred resentment on all sides?

The Channel Four Documentary "Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill" aired on British television Wednesday night, four months after American Special Forces stormed the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan and shot the man responsible for thousands of deaths across the world.

Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda commander, who experts say acted as the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working together with the CIA, the Pakistani army said on Monday.