Barack Obama has been straightforward about his position on third-term abortion from the start: from where he\’s sitting, strong restrictions on late-term...

The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year\’s July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and...

There are a couple groups for whom rising oil prices haven\’t been all bad: roustabouts and service unit operators in the oil and gas industry.

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide.” How to explain why, among the only species capable of...

In recent months, an impressive cast of terrorism experts and counterterrorism officials around the world has coalesced around the notion that al-Qaeda’s leader...

A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot.

U.S. Department of Education employees inappropriately used government credit cards to purchase $49,500 worth of goods and services, including meals, items at clothing...

If you happen to visit Rajasthan, the chances are that you may come across some odd-looking vehicles zooming past the roads, particularly in Daua and Bharatpur...

Nineteen people, including nine policemen, were killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide bombing near a police station 300 yards from the Lal Masjid Sunday in a...

Samuel Mluge steps outside his office and scans the sidewalk. His pale blue eyes dart back and forth, back and forth, trying to focus. The sun used to be his main...

Yesterday, July 3, 15 hostages including the most famous, Ingrid Betancourt, were ‘rescued’ from the FARC. The hostages were transported to a planned location in...

Those who have tried to venture into our government public libaries in tamilnadu will agree to me, when i say they are not so well kept. First the lack of maintanance...

Two twelve-year-old non-Muslim boys were placed under detention on Friday for refusing to pray to Allah.The boys angry parents said that their children were also...

Even as Beijing prepares to welcome the world for the Summer Olympics, some of the city\’s foreign residents are planning their farewell parties. China\’s...

At least 10 policemen have been killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, officials have said.

After a month of painstaking investigations in the Aarushi double murder case, the CBI appears to be veering around the view that the father of the teenage victim and...

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, is engaged and plans to marry a woman 44 years younger than...

Today was the one year anniversary of the Lal Masjid Seige in Islamabad and religious students and religious political parties had organized a big rally in support of...

Hong Kong and Chinese flags were raised together on Tuesday ahead of an annual street protest calling for democracy as the territory marked the 11th anniversary of its...

Not long ago one of Instablogs’ most unspeakably ignorant and dishonest contributors, Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo of New York City, wrote a post in which he attacked the...