Togo is preparing to go to the polls in Thursday's presidential election, widely seen as a test of its democratic process. In the last election in 2005, a highly-contested vote resulted in violence that left hundreds dead and displaced tens of thousa...
Nigeria's parliament is debating a new oil law that foreign companies say could drive away billions of dollars in future investment. The government's petroleum ministry says it will recoup hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax. The Petroleum In...
Compared to the dose level of a medical chest x-ray, a backscatter scan is thousands of times lower. Since the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner, airports are looking for ways to tighten security. One method being adopted by some and...
A new survey carried out by the MAC AIDS Fund shows three-quarters of women in Britain are unaware of their HIV status, and the organization says it's a trend found around the world. Women in Britain are not getting tested for HIV because, according...
Brittney Paulson (left) and Arianna Janelle Moultrie (right), grand prize winners of the Passion for Fashion Competition 2010, attended New York City Fashion Week. During the recent Fashion Week in New York City, top designers unveiled their fall and...
Filmmaker Gabriel Noble first saw Priscilla Star Diaz perform at age nine in a New York City nightclub. When Priscilla Star Diaz told her father she wanted to be a performer, he did all he could to help achieve not only his child's dream, but also hi...
The U.S. Commerce Department says consumer spending rose more than expected in January, up half a percent. Analysts say it's another indication that the U.S. economy is on track to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s. But while consumer...
A county in the U.S. state of California is suing GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug. The lawsuit was spurred by a report on the drug released by the U.S. Senate last week (March 22). That report accused the drug com...
Parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in more than a decade, fueling hope the continent's worst drought in memory may finally be easing. Vast tracts of land have been turned into inland lake...
Indonesian leaders and academics gathered today in Jakarta to discuss how U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit could help build better bilateral relations in areas such as education, climate change and trade. Relations between the United Stat...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is preparing an extensive aid package for Chile after Saturday's powerful earthquake that killed more than 700 people and displaced an estimated two million. Clinton made a brief stop in...
It was another day of bullhorn diplomacy by Iran's top nuclear officials, who appear to be struggling to halt momentum for a new round of international sanctions. The head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, began the day by calling IAE...
Pakistani officials say they have captured at least seven senior members of the Afghan Taliban hiding in Pakistan. The militants are known to have been hiding in the Pakistani city of Quetta near the Afghan border and are known as members of the Quet...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says migrants often lose their lives when traveling in over-crowded boats or trying to cross remote borders. But what is happening in Egypt, she says, is different and deplorable. Her spokesman, Rup...
Observers say the Turkish prime minister's threats over the media's coverage of the recent political crisis is adding to growing questions about what direction the country is heading. The financial fallout from Turkey's latest political crisis was th...
