Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column this week details the fall of outgoing White House council Greg Craig, and drops an interesting tidbit concerning Caroline...

The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of clergy abuse have agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million. The agreement...

Any normal business would tremble in the face of a $2.5 billion tax fine. But in the case of Dogan Yayin, Turkey’s largest media corporation, most are betting that...

Mau forest is one of Kenya’s water towers but has now turned into a political gold mine as the government implements an eviction exercise of illegal settlers who...

The bizarre killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania has evoked deep fear and anxiety in the two countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red...

The current global economic crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for...

The British government was aware of “drumbeats in Washington” in early 2001 calling for the toppling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein but steered clear of...

Global warming, Honduras elections, Doha round of negotiations, these three items are just the beginning of a laundry list of matters the Brazilian government is not...

Each day at five, staff members of the Humane Society of Elkhart County close the animal shelter and hold a meeting. And each day, like clockwork, they begin hearing a...

Last year we all had to go through the mediation by Thabo Mbeki of the Zimbabwean governmental crisis, and although the former South African President was able to have...

A new United Nations report says that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions of dollars in gold and other minerals...

Iraq’s national soccer team has certainly endured hardship. Saddam Hussein had players beaten after losses. And the war that deposed him forced them into exile, after...

When he talks to the nation next week about his Afghanistan strategy, President Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an...

The suspected mastermind of Monday’s massacre in the southern Philippines is the son of a powerful local politician who is also a key local supporter of the...

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country’s nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that...

The Italian prostitute at the centre of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi has explicitly claimed for the first time that she had sex with the Italian prime...

Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment...

The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony...

The world’s biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a Hindu festival in the village of...

Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, university students...