Despite the melamine contamination scandal, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has assured China that it will remain a key ally of the Philippines. China has replaced...

In secular France, it is illegal for hotel owners to turn away women wearing Muslim headscarves but OK to ban those wearing head-to-toe burqas from state-sponsored...

An archbishop cautioned Filipino Catholic educators and parents against the “indiscriminate” use of media by the New Age Movement saying that it believes...

Israeli Jews attacked their Israeli Arab counterpart this past week in what the Israeli media has termed the “Yom Kippur Roits”. Last Wednesday night in the...

This is the edited text of the keynote presentation at a conference on education reform in Pakistan hosted by The Citizens Foundation USA in Milpitas, California, on...

This has sent shock waves within the opposition and many Zimbabweans. Mugabe assigned 30 of the 31 ministries – 15 for his Zanu PF party, 13 for Tsvangirai’s MDC...

In his latest piece on the North Korean issue, Hitoshi Tanaka, formerly Japan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister Koizumi’s chief...

Negotiations with the DPRK to reverse its nuclear weapon program changed character in 2008 with the bilateral US-DPRK channel overshadowing the 6-party forum. US...

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has identified corruption, ethnicism, weak leadership and non-participatory electoral process as the bane of democracy in Africa.

All I ever wanted to do was help that girl. The money I have spent on her! Ballet, tap, jazz, gymnastics. All those cute little outfits at two hundred bucks a pop. A...

Three Zimbabweans in Botswana including a woman are facing death sentence as they are accused of first degree murder. They are accused of murdering an Indian before...

The stock market tanked, unemployment rose and cries grew forceful against Mexican immigrants. It was 1930.

She remembers the spot in the hallway where her father said, “They shot me,” then fell into the arms of his wife.

Pima County has approved a grant of $25,000 to help a pro-illegal group maintain emergency water stations in the Sonoran Desert outside Tucson.

Argentina wants an urgent meeting with Brazil and the other Mercosur country members in order to coordinate positions which would help address the impact of the current...

When U.S. law enforcement officials last month busted a Mexican drug cartel moving tons of dope and millions of dollars, they announced it in Atlanta. The distribution...

We’ve been looking forward to Dead Space for quite a long time now, and I had the entirely terrible task of spending most of last night and today playing the...

In a separate incident, Miguel Angel Villagomez, the editor and publisher of La Noticia, a daily newspaper in the state of Michoacan, was found dead Friday morning with...

Things have gotten so bad in Mexico that they are looking to the United States for answers. It seems that Barack Obama is not only leading in the polls here at home,...

SO closely linked are the problems of insurgency and drug trafficking in Afghanistan that it is no surprise that Nato has extended its mandate to crush the narcotics...