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As former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman declares his candidacy for president, Gallup is out with a new poll that suggests a significant percentage of Americans aren't ready for a Mormon president.

As many of you suspect or know, we are now faced with the greatest crisis in the history of modern man. There's nothing comparable to it, to what we face now. There are solutions, but the question is, will the solutions be tolerated, or accepted?

Delegates at the All Darfur Stakeholders Conference in Doha, Qatar, on 31 May 2011

Muammar al-Gadhafi addresses the general debate of the sixty-fourth session of the UN General Assembly (September 2009)

Libya's opposition leadership declared Monday that the decades-old regime of Moammar Gadhafi is finished, but intense fighting raged in parts of Tripoli as loyalists refused to cede control of the capital.

Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli in a lighting advance Sunday that met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 40-year rule appeared to rapidly crumble. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in the city's main square, the symbolic heart of the regime.

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa Abou Moussa

A Sudanese woman and children in East Jebel Mara, South Darfur

With the sovereign debt crisis deepening, the leaders of France and Germany announced that they would seek a "true European economic government" made up of all the heads of state of eurozone countries but led by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy.

Augustine Mahiga (on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, briefs the Security Council