It was recently announced that Tokyo was the city selected to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

The results of local elections in Mexico have been tallied in error and it is unclear who holds office at the moment.

The President of Brazil is suggesting a "Five Pact" plan to quell protests in her country.

The US Senate voted 67-27 to end debate on the "border surge" amendment. The bill will come to a final vote in the Senate this week.

The Senate will vote today to proceed to debate on the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which provides for an extra 700 miles of fencing along the border, over 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, and $3.2 billion in funding for surveillance and detection technology.

Russia's lower house of parliament approved a bill Tuesday that will impose fines for anyone who provides information about homosexuality to minors.

34 of the 51 members of the NYC City Council have said they support the bill -- enough to override a veto by Mayor Bloomberg, who says it violates the State Constitution.

South Carolina is one step closer to lodging an official roadblock to instituting Obamacare in the Palmetto State.

A Brazilian federal prosecutor has opened an investigation into allegations that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was involved in a vote-buying scheme in Congress that led to the conviction of close aides for corruption.

Venezuelan acting President Nicolás Maduro made a pilgrimage to late socialist leader Hugo Chávez's birthplace on Tuesday and pledged to win the April 14 election in his honor.

Residents of the tiny island colony in the South Atlantic vote overwhelmingly to stay under British rule.

A referendum set for Sunday opens up old wounds between Argentina and Britain over reign of the islands.

Uhuru Kenyatta, accused of crimes against humanity, is leading in the Kenya election. The votes are being counted amidst the controversy of the discarded "spoiled" ballots over administrative issues.

The U.N. Security Council plans to vote on Thursday on a French-drafted resolution authorizing a military mission to retake northern Mali from Islamist rebels after the United States and France overcame disagreements on the issue, envoys said.

Hugo Chavez's supporters dedicated their dominant regional election win to the absent Venezuelan president and turned attention back on Monday to his fight to recover from cancer surgery inCuba.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knew about and used funds from a far-reaching vote-buying scheme to pay for personal expenses, according to testimony by a convicted former consultant to the ruling Workers' Party.

Now, nearly a month after the elections, it appears that Romney will, coincidentally or ironically, be left with 47 percent of the vote.

As President Obama and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney sit at their respective headquarters and wait to be the first to 270 electoral votes, stay with us as we update the race to the White House.

With Election Day just four days away and Latinos expected to play an integral role, a new poll by Latino Decisions shows that nearly 51 percent of likely Latino voters in Florida support President Obama while 44 percent support GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Venezuela's presidential election looked headed for a close finish on Sunday with President Hugo Chavez facing an unprecedented challenge to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism.

Hugo Chavez loyalists blew bugles in a wake up call for voters on Sunday as the Venezuelan leader faced the biggest electoral challenge yet to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism.

Latinos will play a decisive role in the presidential elections - The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials projected more than 12.2 million Latino voters are expected to cast ballots on Election Day, an increase of 26 percent from 2008. That number is about half of the 23.7 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

Sitting in front of a mural of Jesus and the Virgin Mary armed with AK-47s, three red-shirted children are clutching assault rifles and copies of Venezuela's constitution.