The British government has banned an Islamic group under the country's counter-terrorism laws. Islam4UK had planned to stage a march through the British town Wootton Bassett to honor Muslims killed in Afghanistan. Britain's home secretary has announc...
African Union Official Hopes for a More Peaceful and Democratic Continent in 2010 The U.S. human rights monitoring group Freedom House says Africa ranks as the bleakest region in a bleak year in terms of political rights and civil liberties in 2009....
Organizers of football's World Cup in South Africa are dismissing media reports that Friday's attack on the Togolese football team in Angola could affect the sport's biggest tournament when it kicks off in South Africa in June. The head of South Afri...
An Iranian nuclear physicist has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle. Iranian prosecutor general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agencies. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the...
The Sri Lankan president is promising to speed up reconstruction of Tamil-dominated areas of the country, which have been devastated by civil war. The pledge comes as the country heads into the January 26 presidential election, in which the minority...
The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 200,000 people have been displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen. It says the growing number of displaced is straining the ability of aid agencies to shelter and care for those forced to flee their homes....
A state witness in the trial of Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett told the High Court in Harare that some of the weapons that were purportedly found in his possession were not his. Ish Mafundikwa | Harare 12 January 2010 Arms dealer Mike Hitchman arr...
Johnson's 'Playing for Change' music videos serve as inspiration to millions who have seen them on the Internet Susan Logue Koster | Washington, DC 11 January 2010 The Playing for Change Band performed in Boston in October 2009 Related Links Playing...
Australia's once mighty wine industry is facing one of the biggest ever surpluses as supply levels soar and sales shrink. The country's wine surplus is estimated at about 100 million cases. That figure is expected to increase by 40 percent over the c...
Artist's conception of the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2008 to identify planets orbiting distant stars Related Links Kepler The planets we found are all hotter than molten lava. ... Looking at them might be like looking at a blast furnace. Scienti...
Photo: cloudsoup, Flickr Creative Commons Elvis's birth home is now nicely painted, and it looks a lot nicer than the days when Elvis's father could not afford to make bank payments on it The King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, was born 75 years ag...
Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings. But making cement requires heating limestone and other materials to very high temperatures, a process that rele...
The top US defense intelligence officer says it is not clear how successful Pakistan's military operations have been in reducing the Taliban threat to US and NATO troops. The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency tells VOA the Pakistani army shoul...
The International Committee of the Red Cross reports bitterly cold weather is increasing the misery of thousands of people fleeing the conflict in northern Yemen. At least 150,000 people have been affected by the escalating fighting between the Yemen...
The small Southeast Asian nation Laos has for the first time held the Southeast Asian Games, gaining prestige and an economic boost. The landlocked nation's growth is dependent on exporting natural resources but Laos increasingly looks to tourism to...
