By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 24 May 2006 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Jammu Kashmir state chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad look on during a conference in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, M...
By David Gollust State Department 24 May 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reported progress Wednesday in London talks among senior diplomats of the five permanent U.N. Security Council member...
By Paula Wolfson White House 24 May 2006 The search for Middle East peace and the threat to regional security posed by Iran's nuclear intentions topped the agenda when President Bush met Tuesday with...
By David Gollust State Department 23 May 2006 The United States Tuesday condemned what it said was the Syrian government's blatant abuse of the rights of those peacefully seeking to express opposing v...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 23 May 2006 An unprecedented search carried out by the FBI in the office of a member of Congress continues to stir controversy. Majority Republican leaders in the House of...
By Al Pessin Washington 23 May 2006 A senior U.S. military officer says the delay in appointing new Iraqi Defense and Interior ministers will have an effect on efforts to withdraw significant numbers...
By Jim Malone Washington 23 May 2006 Former Treasury Secretary and US Senator Lloyd Bentsen (Undated file photo) Former U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen has died in Texas at the age o...
By David McAlary Washington 23 May 2006 Chickens at US farm Scientists have developed an efficient, cheap way to vaccinate birds against avian influenza and possibly prevent the spread of the deadly H...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 May 2006 Public Health Experts attending the World Health Assembly say the H5N1 virus in birds is rapidly spreading around the world. The World Health Organization urges nati...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 23 May 2006 Pascal Lamy, gestures as he delivers a speech in Paris, Friday, May 20, 2005 World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy said he doubts trade minister who are meeting in...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 23 May 2006 Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, center, meets with local Hamas and Fatah leaders in his office in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 By a 361...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 23 May 2006 As Ivory Coast prepares to play in its first football World Cup, many in the war-divided country are pinning their hopes of peace on the sport. Politicians recently o...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 May 2006 A young HIV positive orphan lies in his cot at the Nyumbani children home, a hospice for AIDS orphans in Nairobi, Kenya Every day, nearly 1,800 children under the...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 23 May 2006 watch Ewaste report Recycled computer keyboards The business of disposing electronic waste - or e-waste - is growing as computer usage increases around the wor...
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 23 May 2006 watch New Sunscreen report Sunscreen with helioplex A new ingredient in sunscreen is being called the most important advance in skin protection from the sun...