Russia and China voiced their opposition to new round of sanctions against Iran in a meeting in Moscow. Russia and China have expressed “the mutual conviction that the application of new, additional sanctions against Iran will not lead to the desired result,” Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Millions of people are expected to join the various ceremonies that commemorate Armistice Day which remembers the sacrifice of the war dead, later today.
Former President Moshe Katsav has been ordered to spend seven years in prison by the Supreme Court of Israel while rejecting his appeal of a rape conviction and other sex crimes.
When Occupy Oakland outed undercover cop Fred Shavies last month, the protestors probably didn't expect the policeman was a legitimate Occupy Wall Street supporter. In a video response with Copwatch however (watch here), Shavies takes a stand, condemning police brutality and calling violence against OWS protests a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
Over one month has passed since parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin reported their daughter, baby Lisa Irwin, missing from her crib in the middle of the night on Oct. 4. The missing 11-month-old will celebrate her first birthday Friday, but she is still nowhere to be found. Bradley and Irwin allowed missing baby Lisa's half-brothers to be interviewed Thursday afternoon for the first time since an initial conversation occurred with police the day after Lisa went missing f...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has named the British soldier who was killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan.
With the cost to local businesses rising, Oakland, California's city leaders have had enough.
Australia became the first country to ban all colorful logos and other branding on the outside of cigarette packages Thursday. New legislation states that all cigarettes must be sold in plain packaging starting in December of next year.
Confederate Flag license plates have been rejected by the state Department of Motor Vehicles in Texas.
Michele Bachmann stood frozen at her podium aboard the USS Yorktown in Charleston, South Carolina, as a group of Occupy protestors calmly shouted at her. What should she have done instead?
This gallery guides visitors from the past to the present with a series of old photographs and a beautiful set of exclusive photographs taken in November 2011. After two centuries of barring public from accessing the facility, it opened to the public Nov. 10 with the launch of the BLDG 92 Brooklyn Navy Yard Center.
The United States said on Thursday it will study a new route for the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, delaying any final approval beyond the U.S. 2012 election and sparing U.S. President Barack Obama a politically risky decision during an election year.
Half of Afghan’s female inmate population have been convicted of “zina” or crimes deemed to be in breach of morality.
A federal jury in Manhattan acquitted state Assemblyman William Boyland of charges accusing him of taking a no-show consulting job at a hospital company.
For 53 cringe-inducing seconds on live television on Wednesday night, Rick Perry's brain froze. Those 53 seconds may have destroyed his presidential campaign. Here's why.
Heart doctors across the U.S. are closing up independent practices and migrating to large medical centers, forcing patients to travel farther and pay more for their care, because of reduction in Medicare slashed reimbursements, experts say.
The paradox of Occupy Wall Street's effect on local business is seen in the span of half a New York City block -- from 40 Wall St. to 60 Wall St.
After an audit conducted by the New York State Comptroller on the MTA, authorities discovered that overtime abuses padding pensions has cost the city and taxpayers.
The balanced budget amendment push is beginning again.
The Nanterre court determined that EDF used the services of Kargus Consultants, a private French security firm, to spy on the Greenpeace campaigners.
The Obama administration reportedly plans to study other routes for the Keystone XL pipeline.
S&P added that it is “investigating the cause of the error.”
A private investigator in Atlanta claims that expensive voice software can prove that Herman Cain was telling the truth when he denied all sexual harassment allegations at a press conference on Tuesday, and that accuser Sharon Bialek was lying in her own press conference on Monday.
Bollore plans to invest 18 billion CFA francs in Abidjan port by 2013 to make it the region's key sea hub, the French logistics and transport group's Africa chief said.
South Africa's Energy Minister Dipuo Peters wants an audit of the country's oil refineries to establish their reliability in the face of increasing unplanned refinery shutdowns, the ministry said on Thursday.
Zambian finance minister Alexander Chikwanda is expected to unveil a pro-poor budget on Friday, reflecting the shift in political priorities in Africa's biggest copper producer since opposition leader Michael Sata's September election upset.
Nigeria plans to change the base year for its gross domestic product (GDP) to 2008 from 1990, a move that could lead to a huge jump in the estimated size of Africa's second biggest economy, the national statistics chief said on Thursday.
Man landing on Mars and returning to the moon could happen sooner than some people may think. On Wednesday, NASA successfully tested a new rocket engine, the J-2X, that puts the organization on track for a new deep space launch in 2017.
South Africa's government bonds weakened on Thursday, erasing earlier gains as the Reserve Bank said the inflation outlook had deteriorated, a hint that the chances of another rate cut had diminished.
South Africa's Reserve Bank held interest rates on Thursday, choosing to focus on rising inflationary pressures in preference to propping up a sluggish domestic economy as uncertainties clouded the country's future rate path.
