What might be more vital for a human being than a breath of air? In the third millennium said to be a paramount of achievements humankind having climbed to date, even...

In Clint Eastwood’s new movie Invictus, opening Friday, Morgan Freeman is South African icon Nelson Mandela, the closest thing to a saint a politician is allowed...

The biggest ever climate change summit kicks off in Copenhagen, Denmark. Representatives from more than 100 countries are to attend the summit to contemplate over the...

Six months after Iran’s disputed presidential election the bloodied and battered opposition movement refuses to give up. On campuses across the country yesterday tens...

Pimps sold a young woman as a sex slave in broad daylight on Britain’s busiest shopping street. A brothel owner paid just £3,000 for the Lithuanian victim, a woman...

President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government’s military...

One of Barack Obama’s first overseas trips as President was to Turkey. When he visited in April he focused on the significant role the country — mainly Muslim,...

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...

Authorities are now offering rewards to informers who provide tips about pornographic Web sites, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports (in English and...

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...

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the...