Prospects 2012

North America

$Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seen at a town hall meeting campaign stop in Manchester, New Hampshire.(REUTERS\Brian Snyder)$

Major domestic policy issues will be parked until after the presidential election in November...

$U.S. President Barack Obama meets with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the White House in Washington.(REUTERS\Larry Downing)$

Next year marks the end of the decade following the September 11, 2001 attacks, ushering in a...

Although it has been more than two years since the official end of the recession of 2008-09,...

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011 advanced the...