Arrest of senior members of the South's Sudan People's Liberation Movement triggered unrest, lead to wide-spread protests in Southern Sudan Alan Boswell | Nairobi 08 December 2009 Sudan's First Vice President Salva Kiir, a former rebel leader in the...
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is claiming responsibility for last month's kidnapping of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a Frenchman in Mali. Scott Stearns | Dakar 08 December 2009 Undated handout photo with unknown dateline supplied by...
Patrick Nimely Sie-Tuon of the U.S.-based Liberia Human Rights Campaign says the group has nothing personal against President Sirleaf only to end impunity in LIberia James Butty | Washington, DC 08 December 2009 Five months after releasing the unedit...
Reports say one damaged building belongs to the country's main spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. Sean Maroney | Islamabad 08 December 2009 Pakistan's army soldiers and rescue workers search bodies in the rubble at site of bomb explosion in Mul...
Many ZANU-PF delegates say they want to decide who will succeed President Robert Mugabe, who will be 86 in February. President Robert Mugabe received fewer votes in the presidential election last year than MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Peta Thornycro...
Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 07 December 2009 Think U.S. airport security is already a bear? Wait till you read about the coming Secure Flight program People working with computers often lament how confusing it has become these days, trying to reme...
Rocky Mountain museum is creating its own Jurassic adventure bone by bone Joseph Mok | Washington, DC 07 December 2009 Dinosaur researchers have made giant strides in recent years, however they know that the vast majority of dinosaur specimens have y...
Experts urge 'Westward Ho!' for finding the best dinosaur treasures Joseph Mok | Thermopolis, Wyoming 07 December 2009 The Archeopteryx, a flying dinosaur about the size of a modern pigeon, is on display at the Wyoming center The gigantic brachiosaur...
But study says universities are not responding to Generation E Zulima Palacio | Washington, DC 07 December 2009 A recent study by the National Wildlife Federation concludes that although students are increasingly committed to sustainability, universi...
U.S. President Barack Obama has charted a complicated political course over the next few months. Mr. Obama is rallying Democrats to support health-care reform in Congress. But he is also counting on Republican help for his new strategy on Afghanistan...
Top Pentagon officials say the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan will not end when the military campaign is over. They are also predicting U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan will inevitably increase th...
Ambassador Stephen Bosworth will try to bring the Kim Jong Il government back to six-nation talks on giving up its nuclear weapons, which North Korea abandoned Jason Strother | Seoul 07 December 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy for No...
Relief officials in Africa say environmental studies since the 1970's have shown the steady advance of the desert and irregular rains cause floods and drought in Sahelian countries Scott Stearns | Dakar 07 December 2009 A man walks through a dead mai...
A reported 'revolt' among members of its climate change talks' negotiating team has put the Indian government on the political defensive at home Steve Herman | New Delhi 07 December 2009 Pollution A reported 'revolt' among members of its climate chan...
Indian PM Manmohan Singh says Russia will help his country build 4 new nuclear power plants. Mr. Singh made the announcement after meetings in Moscow with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Peter Fedynsky | Moscow 07 December 2009 Indian Prime Minist...
