The United States and Britain have rejected U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's allegations that they are partly to blame for the Iraq oil-for-food sc...
The United States and China have agreed in principle for the first time to hold regular, senior level talks on a range of political and economic issue...
The World Food Program has made its last shipment of grain to China - a sign that the country's drive over the past 30 years to feed itself has paid o...
From the moment Spaniards -- or was it Vikings? -- first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians (because they thou...
The political battle over President Bush's plan to revamp the U.S. government pension system known as Social Security is expected to intensify over th...
The parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo have ended their appeals in the federal court system following another ruling against them by a three-judge...
Negotiators for the major political groups in Iraq say they plan to reopen the Iraqi parliament by Tuesday and announce the new government's top leade...
Key opposition figures in Kyrgyzstan are claiming control of the government the day after President Askar Akayev reportedly fled the country. Meanwhil...
A consortium of more than 60 international non-governmental organizations says it will launch a global campaign on the Right to Water on March 22, whi...
