Church leaders, human rights activists, and healthcare workers in Uganda have delivered a petition, demanding the withdrawal of an anti-homosexuality bill in parliament. Critics say the bill's passage could set a precedent for other African countries...
EU Commissioner Oliver Rehn is in Athens to discuss Greek proposals to straighten out its government finances. The European Union has urged Greece to implement greater austerity measures immediately to tackle a debt crisis that has shaken the entire...
The Vancouver Olympics ended on Sunday and it could not have been a much better finish for host country Canada, which won the final gold medal. This was an Olympics that began on a sad note after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a young luge athlet...
Canadians are known for a having a good sense of humor - and that was on full display during the closing ceremony. Because one of the special hydraulically-powered arms of the Olympic cauldron malfunctioned during the opening ceremonies, the closing...
America is full of vacation lodges . . . on wheels! They are known as motor homes - literally kitchens, living rooms, and beds on the move across America. There are more than 1.5 million of these self-propelled rolling dwellings in the United States....
Even as a child, Ed Dwight had a gift for art. But he set that talent aside to focus on careers that included engineer, test pilot, astronaut trainee (the first African American in the program) and entrepreneur. It was as the owner of a large constru...
The world's brainiest people were in China for the 34th annual Battle of the Brains, the oldest, most prestigious computer programming contest in the world. Earlier this month, the world's brainiest people were in Harbin, China, for the 34th annual B...
The U.S. State Department issued its annual report on the global drug trade Monday, saying that narcotics trafficking threatens the security, health and safety of people in the United States and around the world. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the eve of a visit to Chile to show solidarity with that country amid its earthquake disaster, says she is bringing in communications gear requested by the Chilean government. Clinton spoke in Montevideo wh...
Chilean authorities are struggling to maintain order, distribute supplies, and rescue survivors after Saturday's powerful earthquake that killed more than 720 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings. President Mic...
Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yanukovich, says he is committed to establishing closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovich, who is considered far more pro-Russian than his predecessor, chose to make his first foreign trip to Brussels, rather th...
The West Bank city of Hebron has been the scene of clashes between rock-throwing Palestinian demonstrators and police almost daily in the past two weeks. The violence stems from Israel's decision to add Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's To...
A law that forces white-owned companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans has come into force. Most of the foreign companies affected are South African owned, which are supposed to be protected by a recently signed trade ag...
The Iranian government has released a handful of detainees, including several prominent journalists, according to opposition Web sites. At the same time, the official Fars News agency reports two reformist newspapers, Etemaad and Irandokht, have been...
With Togo elections set for March 4, the former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo recently landed in the West African country as head of the African Union's mission to monitor the vote. The most recent presidential election in Togo resulted in vio...
