On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected...

India today signed a path-breaking civil nuclear agreement with Russia that will guarantee uninterrupted uranium fuel supplies for its atomic reactors and transfer of...

The Episcopal Church in the US has elected its first openly lesbian woman to serve as a bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles, instantly sparking fresh tumult in the...

US President Barack Obama may be well-intentioned but he’s still stuck in the past when it comes to supporting Honduras’ recent, post-coup election,...

Thanks to movies like Goodfellas, Americans appreciate how witness-protection programs are supposed to work. A mobster may not be able to find decent marinara sauce...

A Nigerian hospital has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being brought to them by police. The Chief Medical Director at the University of...

Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company’s safe made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend, making their getaway as...

The Iraqi capital Baghdad has been hit with several explosions that have left at least 101 people dead and more than 180 people wounded. Early reports say three...

After my editorial was published yesterday, I found that it had been picked up elsewhere in the world and that it was gaining the attention of various people scattered...

Customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport say a man from Guatemala was detained after he tried to carry a cooked chicken stuffed with more than $4,000 worth of...

A bomb exploded near an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, damaging the building and killing at least 12 people amid a surge of...

Something stinks at M. Slavin & Sons fish market, and it’s not just the fish. According to a complaint filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act more aggressively the United...

Eight youths were killed and 26 injured when students descending a crowded staircase after evening classes at a school in central China lost their footing amid a crush...

U.S. prosecutors have alleged new acts of terrorism against two Pakistan-born Westerners, who now stand accused of playing a role in the Mumbai massacre. David...

A Big drama by Raju Chandak, alias Raju Lambu by filing an FIR against Asaram Bapu and two of his sadaks. This guy Ramu Lambu said that he was hit by three bullets on...

Desperate and defeated militants started hitting innocents and peaceful men, women and children of Pakistan. On December 7, 2009 four blasts rocked Peshawar, Lahore...

One writing about extremism, intolerance and genocidal rhetoric in Israel one should always note that this is the Zionist norm. Such discourse has dominated not only...

The Saudis have some sort of unquenchable blood lust the way they find any excuse to execute a man (or woman), even one who doesn’t happen to be a citizen. Ali...

Meet Bush’s Iraq Dream: Ayatollah Rule. As I recently wrote, Bush and the neo-cons promised not only a democracy in Iraq but a model for the rest of the region...