The U.S. President Barack Obama’s the State of the Union speech on Jan. 25 avoided any toxic references to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, says Robert W. Baird.
A gay rights activist who sued a newspaper last year for “outing” him, has been found murdered in Uganda.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, defended the integrity of the euro currency at the World Economic Forum in Davos, by asserting that neither his country nor Germany will permit it to fail.
In response to the reconstruction costs associated with the floods that have devastated Queensland and Victoria provinces, the prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, has unveiled a new “flood tax” to help pay for the rebuilding.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the sovereign credit rating of Japan, the third-biggest economy in the world, to AA- from AA.
Examples set by the Tunisian protesters are being taken up strongly by several countries suffocated with steep poverty and high unemployment rates.
Utah-based Dugway Proving Ground, an army base focused on rendering chemical and biological defensive testing and training was placed on lockdown on Wednesday.
Barack Obama will travel to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador early this year, the US president announced during State of the Union speech to the U.S. Congress.
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to green technologies by vowing to flood America's highways with plug-in cars and will ask Congress for new programs to support sales and development of electric vehicles.
U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce China currency legislation that was overwhelmingly approved last year by the House of Representative but failed to become law, congressional aides said on Wednesday.
Two former Galleon Group portfolio managers admitted to charges of insider trading on confidential company information, strengthening the government's case against Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam a month before his trial
The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday launched a Risk Response Network (RRN) in Davos to facilitate collective response to complex and interconnected global risks.
Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) is suing a congressional cafeteria for significant dental injuries caused by biting olive pitin a swandwich wrap he ate in 2008.
The internet has become a venue for battles between the Egyptian government and protesters, through social networking sites such as Facebook and the home pages of groups such as Anonymous.
Governor Deval Patrick unveiled a fiscal 2012 budget that will cut $570 million, or 1.8 percent, from last year's budget – the largest such cut in 20 years -- and particularly hammer social services, health care and aid to municipalities.
Thirty provinces in China raised minimum wages by the end of 2010 as inflation, particular those of food items, surged last year.
Belgium's economy minister said on Wednesday that heavy state involvement in emerging market economies is unsustainable, and it urged China to open sectors up to foreign companies.
President Barack Obama and members of Congress agree that cutting the federal deficit is important but what should be cut and by how much is the debate ahead as the next budget battle takes shape.
The Mexican economy is getting a helping hand from unlikely allies: Chinese workers whose rising wages are leading more companies to build factories in Mexico.
A new study by The Violence Policy Center (VPC), a non-profit educational and research organization, sheds some chilling light on the epidemic of murder raging through the African-American community, especially among young males.
South Korea today proposed a time and place to meet with North Korea, following an agreement the nations reached last week to resume talks. The meeting is projected to take place on Feb. 11 in the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two nations.
The Iraqi government is mulling the idea of promoting polygamy after years of war has left the nation with more than 1-million widows and a shortage of young unmarried men.
Representative Dennis Kucinich sued the House of Representative's cafeteria for selling him a defective sandwich wrap that caused him years of dental damage. The culprit was a defective olive.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept its key interest rate unchanged at the record low range of 0 percent to 0.25 percent, as widely expected. The FOMC also remained committed to its $600-billion Treasury purchase program.
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama devoted several lines to the slumping stature of U.S. education, by our own standards and globally.
Full-text of FOMC policy statement of Jan. 26, 2011.
In his opening speech at the Davos world economic forum in Switzerland, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev touched on a number of subjects, including why he was late to the confab – the suicide bombing in a Moscow airport that killed 35 people.
The family of Egypt’s embattled President Hosni Mubarak has not fled the country, according to a source in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo who spoke to CBS News.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that we do big things in his State of the Union Address, challenging Americans and Congress to take on the global competition for jobs, and tackle the nation's huge debt and deficit.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at the heads of parliament and the judiciary, accusing them of interfering in his government's business, media reported Wednesday.
