Rwandan President Paul Kagame joined celebrations in England as Rwanda was formally welcomed into the Commonwealth Club of Nations. Rwandan performers opened the Commonwealth Day ceremony with a traditional dance and Rwandan President Paul Kagame add...
Iraqi officials are counting votes from Sunday's parliamentary election. Despite a series of attacks that left more than 30 people dead, the vote is being hailed as a general success. Officials started the task of tallying the ballots shortly after t...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, last week asked Saudi Arabia to try to influence Pakistan to crack down on anti-Indian terrorists in Pakistan. For years, India has insisted on dealing directly with Pakistan, but Saudi Arabia has close ties to P...
Togo's main opposition party says it will contest results announced by the electoral commission that indicate the country's president has won re-election. According to provisional results announced late Saturday by the electoral commission, President...
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2080, one in five Americans will be over age 65. For some time, experts have warned that health care needs of the elderly will be enormous in the years ahead. A study out this week raises concern for...
Iraqis voted Sunday in national elections, despite a string of attacks across the country that left more than 38 people dead. Security is a key issue in the campaign, as whoever leads the new government will oversee the withdrawal of American troops....
There is no clear frontrunner among the parties competing in Ir...
Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. The world of physics has changed a lot since I went to school. More powerful particle accelerators atom smashers, they used to call them have all...
A species of frog has been found alive on a farm in Australia more than 30 years after it was thought to have become extinct. Environment officials have said a thriving population of yellow-spotted bell frogs has been found in a remote creek in New S...
The countdown to the 82nd Academy Awards, Hollywood's glitziest event, has begun. This year, 10 films, instead of the usual five, are competing for Best Picture. Two of them -- The Hurt Locker and Avatar -- appear to be favorites and are in fierce co...
Putumayo Records has come down with a serious case of the blues. Its previous releases feature noted blues musicians from Chicago, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, as well as a collection called Blues Around The World. The label rounds out its...
In the 1970s, Carl Safina fished off the U.S. Atlantic coast for bluefin tuna, a majestic warm-blooded predator that travels at highway speeds and can weigh as much as 650 kilograms. I've seen acres and acres of bluefin tuna at the surface, exploding...
While the health care reform debate in the United States has been dominated on lowering the cost of health insurance, other health care activists and experts are working behind the scenes to lower barriers to quality health care for African-Americans...
Human rights and legal rights groups are urging the Obama administration not to change its decision to try the alleged conspirators of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States in the civilian court system as opposed to military...
The prayers from a Sunni mosque carry through the streets of this Baghdad neighborhood ... competing with or, perhaps, complementing the prayers from a Shi'ite mosque nearby. Above both comes the heavy beat of military helicopters, patrolling the cit...
