A prominent former official of the Syrian government said he thinks that President Bashar al-Assad will eventually be overthrown as a result of the regime’s brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
In a two-page letter sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Franken discusses what he calls the worrisome existence of the iPhone's and iPad's extensive location data.
A senior Pakistani government official has refuted allegations by the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Pakistan's principal intelligence agency has a longstanding relationship with an insurgent group allied with the Taliban (which has targeted American troops in Afghanistan).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday it issued four warning letters to companies that manufacture and market over-the-counter (OTC) drug products, including hand sanitizers, that claim to prevent infection from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA).
Two news photographers were killed in the conflict zone in Libyan rebel stronghold of Misrata where Muammar Gaddafi's forces have intensified attacks on rebel positions.
The video of a supposed dead alien, found in Russia's Republic of Buryatia near the claimed UFO citing last month, has become an internet sensation.
The Indian Space Resource Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) C16, carrying the remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two auxiliary satellites, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Wednesday morning.
With Mark Zuckerburg admitting that he was kind of nervous in his opening remarks while hosting Barack Obama at the Facebook headquarters, the young entrepreneur and the president sought comfort in a trivial yet hilarious chat about clothes.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) released new video, where robots are being deployed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in order to measure radiation levels and other conditions after the recent earthquake in Japan.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan
The 20-kilometer evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor complex has been declared a no-entry zone by the Japanese government, stating that the 'plant has not been stable'.
Tim Hetherington, a well-known British photojournalist, was killed in Misurata, Libya, while covering the civil war in that country, the UK Foreign Office stated.
The Supreme Court of India has urged states to ruthlessly stamp out the practice of honor killings and also warned that government and police officials who failed to prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes would themselves be prosecuted.
Most U.S. adults favor a mix of federal spending cuts and higher taxes on wealthier taxpayers to reduce the nation's budget deficits, a new poll finds.
The re-election of Goodluck Jonathan as president of Nigeria has led to dozens of killings and thousands of people leaving their homes, according to the Red Cross.
Despite the lifting of emergency laws and other political concessions, unrest in Syria persists.
UCSF Professor Robert Lustig claims sugar is a poison and Coke conspired to increase America's consumption of it.
Prominent fans of the Celtic Football Club have been warned to exercise caution after potentially lethal letter bombs were sent to the team’s manager, Neil Lennon, as well as to two high-profile fans, Lennon’s lawyer Paul McBride QC and Trish Godman, a Labour member of the Scottish parliament.
Washington Democrats and Republicans have already generally agreed - though no official deal is in place - that the U.S. debt will grow by trillions of dollars over the next 10 years and that the pace of its growth must slow. How the government will cut deficits in the years to come is a matter of debate and Congress is undecided.
Yemen has been struck by fresh new violence, one day after a summit in the United Nations failed to reach a consensus on the nation’s crisis.
Many policy mistakes by Western governments come from a misunderstanding of globalization, said Stephen D. King, chief economist of HSBC
Italy has now joined France and Britain is sending military advisers to assist rebel forces in Libya.
The British government has rejected a proposed increase in the European Union (EU) Commission’s annual budget as “totally unacceptable” in the current climate of austerity cuts across Europe.
The French government has stated that it will send a small group of military officers to Libya to help advise rebel groups in that country who are fighting a brutal war against Moammar Gaddafi.
For over 70 years the United States has been widely considered AAA top-notch benchmark sovereign risk. Standard & Poor (S&P)'s decision to impose a negative outlook now puts this status under question for the first time, reflecting the unsustainable debt trajectory and risks of policy response gridlock.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday declassified the United States Government's six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918.
The Department of Energy has been working around the clock to provide whatever assistance we can to the Government of Japan as they work to bring the Fukushima nuclear reactors under control. One unique capability that the Department has recently mobilized to help in this situation is an expertise in robotics.
A repeat of a corporate tax holiday that found little success in stimulating the economy in 2005 is still a long-shot to jump-start a stagnant U.S. economy, says a University of Illinois expert in corporate and international taxation.
A secret memo released online by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in its 'Vault' has emerged as proof for the famed landing -- or crash or capture -- of a flying saucer with three dead aliens in Roswell in New Mexico in June 1947.
Roche Holding AG's arthritis and cancer drug, Rituxan, received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat two rare disorders that cause blood vessel inflammation.
