Despite the escalation of long-running tensions over settlements and a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza, Israel has recently taken measures to woo Paris and other key votes at the UN.
House lawmakers will introduce a bill Thursday that would lift the federal prohibition on marijuana, delegating decisions about the legal status of cannabis to the states.
Opponents of a measure to ban circumcision in San Francisco, before it takes to the ballot in November, filed a lawsuit Wednesday on the grounds that state law prohibits local governments from restricting medical procedures.
Despite criticisms during his first term, the South Korean was unanimously voted in for a second time.
Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday, calling on Saudi authorities to stop treating women as second-class citizens and open the Kingdom's roads to women drivers.
Saudi women are coming out in droves today in the Muslim holy land to protest the ban by getting behind the wheel and cruising.
The United Nations and European Union are working to push Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to halt violence.
Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.
The Netherlands' famous marijuana coffee shops are soon to become private clubs for Dutch citizens only.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.
A 1992 ban on covert advertising may allow France to exploit its social media market potential.
Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.
French government on Monday said that it will enforce a law that will ban the use of the words ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ on television and radio programs, the Daily Mail reported.
New York City can keep religious services out of its schools without violating free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The outbreak of E. coli in Western Europe has led Russia to impose a ban on fresh vegetable imports from the European Union (EU).
China has banned its military force from using social networking and other match-making websites to prevent leak of classified information.
Sen. Charles Schumer on Monday called for legislation that would prohibit the rental of cars that had been recalled for safety reasons.
EU ministers voted on Friday to exempt solar panels from a ban on toxic substances in electrical goods, enabling leading maker First Solar to keep selling its products in the industry's biggest market.
A day after New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's smoking-in-public-places-is-no-longer-legal went into effect, smokers continued to have it their way: By defying the new law, smoking anyway, and getting away with it, the New York Daily News reports.
Smoking in New York City's public places is no longer legal as the law that prohibits smoking in New York City's 1,700 parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas comes into effect Monday.
All New York City public parks, beaches, board walks and pedestrian plazas are smoke-free as of today.
Spaniards continue to protest against unemployment for the seventh day across the country defying a ban on demonstrations before the elections.
