GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney aggressively defended his tenure as head of Bain Capital Thursday, once again asserting that his private equity career resulted in the net creation of over 100,000 jobs while also calling any job losses an unfortunate fact of life in the private sector.

GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney aggressively defended his tenure as head of Bain Capital Thursday, once again asserting that his private equity career resulted in the net creation of over 100,000 jobs while also calling any job losses an unfortunate fact of life in the private sector.

"I find the behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says. Two of the four Marines in the video have been identified.

Remember greedy Boss Hogg in "The Dukes of Hazzard"? Mississippi's attorney general says ex-Gov. Haley Barbour acted like Hogg when he pardoned a bunch of inmates.

Protests that started over a scrapped fuel subsidy expanded into an outcry against the government's shortcomings as throngs of Nigerians of all classes took to the streets again Thursday.

Syrian security forces fired the shells that killed French journalist Gilles Jacquier on Wednesday, a Syrian opposition group said, rejecting claims that the France 2 TV journalist was killed by "armed terrorist" fire.

Somali pirates are not building palaces with swimming pools with the ransoms they collect from international shipping companies and hostages, but they are helping the local economy, a new report finds.

Somali pirates are not building palaces with swimming pools with the ransoms they collect from international shipping companies and hostages, but they are helping the local economy, a new report finds.