The UN expressed concerns Wednesday about threats made against Colombian judicial officials and warned that some were coming from the government and police. Following...

At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...

A mother posted messages on Twitter as rescue workers tried to save her dying son. Shellie Ross, who is in her 30s, sent out ‘tweets’ to the social networking site...

The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has granted asylum to the 12 members of the National Football (Soccer) Team of Eritrea that defected in Kenya on...

First it was cocaine. Now Mexico’s drug kingpins are offering an even more addictive substance to their American customers: black gold. This isn’t slang for a new...

Nearly 3,000 child soldiers who fought as Maoist guerrillas in Nepal are finally to be released from the camps where they have been confined for the past three years,...

Yemen today claimed to have killed 34 members of al-Qaida and captured 17 others in security operations in a country in which a growing jihadi presence is ringing alarm...

For Floripa Lizama and her family, the past is their slapdash wood-plank home located next to an unsightly concrete canal. But they will soon be part of a new Chile,...

Hugo Chavez accused the Netherlands on Thursday of allowing the United States to use Dutch islands off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to prepare a possible military...

The Lebanese navy said it has recovered 38 people and four bodies off the coast of northern Lebanon after a ship with 83 aboard sank Thursday. The rescue mission was...

Scary details that North and Southern Sudan are sliding back to war calls for immediate action before its too late. A newly released report has revealed that both...

It was bad enough that nearly 300 reindeer tragically drowned before Christmas after the ice collapsed on a Swedish river crossing. Then a company wanted to grind the...

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 10 people in the latest attack by...

Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military’s...

his son and grandson were shot to death in a Manhattan apartment by a man who wounded the youngest victim’s mother before falling to his death from a fire escape,...

It’s not clear who the Iranian Cyber Army is, or if the group is actually responsible for sabotaging Twitter. During the unrest that followed Iran’s...

If President Obama’s health-care initiative fails, there is no longer a rationale for being a liberal in the United States. Everything else on liberalism’s...

Yesterday saw the closing of a three-day national conference to identify “best practices and effective measures” in the fight against corruption. The...

A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the worsening economic crisis...