One of the most disadvantages and advantage of staying in a democratic world is everybody can raise their voice. A person like Raj Thackeray openly takes on the charge...

The Qatari government is quite an schizophrenic institution. The Emir of Qatar is one of the region’s most progressive leader who has allowed for some degree of...

A new study shows just how much of a no-brainer it is for politicians for legalize marijuana use. The American “War on Drugs” has been futile and...

If you needed any more proof that Israel is not only a nation with a racist framework, but with a racist culture, Israeli newspapers provide daily illustrations. The...

The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been...

Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...

President Hosni Mubarak vowed on Saturday that Egypt will be firm in dealing with attacks on its nationals, amid hot tempers and a diplomatic spat with Algeria over a...

Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online. The initial...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...

representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....

“There should be no differences between black Jews and white Jews,” said Ayeli, 29, who was among 15,000 people who this week celebrated the...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...

More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says. Many of those fleeing...

Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German...

In almost every way, David Headley was the perfect neighbour. When the 49-year-old American citizen began renting an apartment in Mumbai last year he charmed his...

Hangu police on Friday morning acted efficiently to dispose a bomb placed outside a high school and college building in the Muslim Abad neighborhood of the town. The...

A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily...

A transsexual Brazilian prostitute known as ‘Brenda,’ who was linked to a sex scandal involving former Italian politician Piero Marrazzo, has been found...