Iran says it sent a research rocket carrying live animals into space Wednesday, prompting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hail the country's scientif...
Iraqi officials say that a motorcycle bomb blast has killed at least 20 Shi'ite pilgrims near the holy city of Karbala. The explosion came as hundreds...
Amnesty International says police in Papua New Guinea have burnt down homes and illegally evicted people living near a mine owned by the world's large...
January 29 was supposed to have been a day of celebration. In the sprawling presidential compound known as Villa Somalia, preparations had been made t...
Harvard researchers have noticed an unusual increase in the number of women with breast cancer in developing countries. So they have spearheaded an in...
France's top universities have recently agreed to admit more poor students, after strong pressure from the government to do so. The debate on offering...
The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) and the mobile telecommunications company Vodafone are piloting a project that will allow shopkeepers in Burkina F...
When the world's biggest polluters gathered this past December at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen, they managed to forge a non-binding agreement...
Nearly a year after the global financial crisis peaked, an economic stimulus program that Australia says was key in easing its recession, is getting a...
Nader says 'Only the Super Rich Can Save Us' offers a roadmap to a practical utopia. Some of the richest Americans are using their wealth for the comm...
