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Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and showed that Hondurans want to put a summer coup behind them.
Announcing that conservative rancher Porfirio Lobo was headed for victory...
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When he talks to the nation next week about his Afghanistan strategy, President Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an eight-year-old war that is increasingly unpopular with the American public, while he also...
Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
The five apparently include three death...
Aides to General Stanley McChrystal yesterday condemned the intervention of US ambassador and former military man Karl Eikenberry in the debate on troop reinforcements as nothing short of a military betrayal. “He ambushed us” and “he...
When the newly elected New York City Council convenes in January, for the first time in its history white council members will be in the minority, as whites are in the city.
Also for the first time, an Asian American will serve in an elected citywide...
For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once hunted to near extinction — appear to be thriving world-wide.
From fewer than...
One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives
A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King.”
“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the world’s first legislation prohibiting...
A judge and five members of the same family were killed in the Iranian capital during a dispute, local media quoted judicial sources as saying.
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