Talking about the efficiency of the Brazilian economy president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said during the 32nd Meeting of the Full Council of Economic and Social...

A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba’s race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil...

Mourners in the western Venezuelan state of Tachira on Wednesday laid to rest the body of a university student who was shot dead at a protest while unarmed police...

Finally 11-day long hunger strike by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao for a separate Telangana state ends with Indian Govt. confirming the...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, which is hearing the controversial NRO ordinance case on a daily basis, has asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit a...

The bull was badly outnumbered, and while its muscular body, thick black hide and rock-hard horns offered significant advantages, this was not a brawl the animal was...

Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his...

Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid...

During yesterday’s hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented a unified...

Three women filed a lawsuit in a European court against Ireland’s abortion ban Wednesday, claiming the government violates the human rights of pregnant women by...

President Barack Obama is accepting the world’s best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the...

The process of carving a new state of Telangana out of the existing Andhra Pradesh will soon begin, Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced late on Wednesday...

State officials issued a warning today about a scam targeting unemployment benefits deposited onto debit cards. Laid off workers are getting text messages on their...

A recent pay increase for Afghan troops and police appears to have resulted in a surge of applicants, said the top U.S. military official for Afghan security...

Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan...

Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...

Schoolteacher Shana Richey misses the playroom she decorated with Glamour Girl decals for her daughters. Fireman Jay Fernandez misses the custom putting green he...

Decades ago, a pioneering individual posited that adolescent students claiming to be bisexual, gay, or identifying as transexual should not meet with ridicule or...

Australia’s UniSA is introducing the Master of Science (Information Assurance) course in 2010 to help meet the growing demand for IT security professionals.The...

Congressman Brian Baird (D-Washington) has announced his retirement after six terms - 12 years - in the House of Representatives. He will sorely be missed by me and all...