Economic aides to President Barack Obama are offering varying assessments of where the U.S. economy stands two months into the new administration. Lea...
Pakistani police clashed in Lahore with protesters opposing the country's year-old government, in the most violent demonstrations yet in a five-day st...
The South African Constitution Court has ruled citizens who are registered voters and reside abroad are entitled to vote. The decision overturns secti...
North Korea has told international agencies it will conduct its planned launch of what Pyongyang says is a satellite in early April. North Korea's lau...
Foreign ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, have recently agreed to resume ties with Russia that were suspended in August ...
Security and trade have been the focus of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's visit to Australia. It is the first time an Iraqi leader has made an ...
President Obama has lifted restrictions on the use of federal money for research using embryonic stem cells. Some researchers are already making progr...
Most rice grows in wet environments, but too much water can be disastrous for rice crops. Plant biologist Pamela Ronald helped create a type of flood-...
Some of the world's top scientists are wrapping up a three-day, climate-change meeting in Copenhagen with a grim warning that global warming is arrivi...
The International Maritime Bureau said the international anti-piracy campaign off the coast of Somalia has reduced the number of successful ship hijac...
