The socialist ALBA summit that ended here Monday can trace its origins to two events that occurred in the same week, exactly 15 years ago, on opposite sides of the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to President Obama’s aid on health care legislation Wednesday, taking on an enraged liberal base that includes many House...

Colombia has been attracting worldwide foreign direct investment (FDI) and has understandably been looking towards China as a model, as well as Asia in general, as the...

A tourist bus crash in South Korea has killed 17 people and injured 14 others. Police officer Park Sang-ho said the bus was carrying 31 people — all South Koreans in...

A two-year-old boy has been hospitalized in serious condition in Barreiras, a city 858 kilometers (533 miles) from Salvador, capital of Brazil’s northeastern...

A New Zealand church has sparked outrage by erecting a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph lying semi-nude beneath the sheets. In an unorthodox take on the Christmas...

The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into...

An all-singing and all-dancing video by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right political party has become the mocking buzz of the month on French-language...

Yesterday Mugabe had a brief opportunity to address the Copenhagen Climate Change conference - and, as we thought he might, he had a go at the USA and the UK and the...

One of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords has been killed in a shoot-out with state security forces, officials say. Arturo Beltran Leyva and four alleged members of...

The lucky ones survive with mutilated penises and shameful scars for the rest of their lives, but that’s the high price boys in rural South Africa pay to become a...

The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month. Alan Doss told the UN...

The acting Inspector General of Government, Mr Raphael Baku, has issued a hash indictment of government, saying all its various departs are corrupt but only differ in...

Two of Colombia’s biggest rebel groups have announced they intend to unite with each other against the country’s US-backed security forces. The...

The failure of the international community to reach a deal with Tehran is sparking fears of an atomic arms race in the volatile and oil-rich region. While the West may...

Vladimir Putin has a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Not only has the Russian strongman consolidated his control over the proletariat — and all their oil and gas...

Pakistan’s top court struck down an amnesty Wednesday that had protected U.S.-allied President Asif Ali Zardari from corruption charges, setting the stage for...

More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era. Earlier this month, after Sprint, Verizon and Yahoo were...

The British Broadcasting Corp. suffered criticism from lawmakers Wednesday for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda. The broadcaster...

For the first time in eight years of his rule has he dared speak the truth and explain his powerlessness to a public that is least interested in his words and more in...