A U.S. military report issued Tuesday found the risk of repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy to overall military effectiveness is low.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-WY, has a reputation of being frank to the point of being blunt. He did not disappoint today, when expressing what he called the main message from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Boeing has signed a contract with Copa Airlines of Panama to provide that carrier with 22 737-800 aircraft for $1.7 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
As investors continue to shovel mountains of cash into U.S. Treasuries and U.S. bonds, investors seeking yield and price outperformance are advised to look at bonds issued by the emerging markets nations.
The American people did not vote for political gridlock in Washington, according to President Barack Obama who today met with Congressional leaders from both parties to discuss what they consider the main components of the national agenda.
While it was high public debt that did Greece in and a collapsed banking sector that sunk Ireland, Portugal's problems are low economic growth prospects and high private sector debt.
Scientists have discovered that the air above the Dead Sea in Israel is laden with oxidized mercury, showing some of the highest levels of the oxidized form of the dangerous neurotoxin ever observed outside the polar regions, according to the United States National Science Foundation.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton embarked on a four-day visit to Asia on Tuesday amid publication of classified US State Department cables by WikiLeaks that continued to make headlines around the world.
After enjoying nearly two decades of an unprecedented economic prosperity at home, many Irish are now seeking to leave for greener pastures elsewhere as the nation finds itself on the brink of an economic collapse.
You only live once, why not do something worthwhile? says Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Unemployment in the euro area rose marginally in October for the first time in 6 months, according to a report by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
The U.K. government is implementing a new workplace pension scheme that will help the low-to-moderate earners and employers.
Ecuador on Monday offered residence to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘with no problems and no conditions’.
The Indian economy outpaced growth expectations in the third quarter to grow more than in the second quarter, boosted by stronger manufacturing growth and construction, according to data released by the government.
Japan's economic conditions continued to worsen as unemployment rate rose in October and industrial production fell for the fifth consecutive month.
Many countries have taken it upon themselves to negotiate regional or bilateral trade agreements to match evolving economic realities as the multilateral Doha Round negotiations stall.
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, is saying “Try me or tell me why not.”
Selling counterfeit items over the Internet became a little more difficult today, as federal law enforcement officers executed seizure orders against the domain names of 82 commercials websites that, authorities said, sold and distributed counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.
President Obama today froze the pay of all civilian federal employees for the next two years.
The technology used by Wikileaks to maintain anonymity could be the Onion Router which is also used by U.S. Navy.
Berlusconi in Italy laughed it away, while Ahmadinejad in Tehran yet again blamed the United States. The Russians refused to comment and Indians breathed a sigh of relief. WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, revealed the vigor of US espionage, leaking out more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. The first batch of the documents leaked mentioned Saudi Arabia and other Arab states' desire to attack Iran, highly sensitive information on world leaders and US military strategy across the Worl...
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department denied on Monday that his agency's diplomats were spies, after the release of hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified cables by the Wikileaks organization.
The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to the person or persons who set fire to a mosque in Corvallis, Oregon on Sunday.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), an independent economic forecasting entity of the British government, raised its
UK GDP forecast for this year to 1.8 percent from the previous 1.2 percent estimate.
Japan on Monday dismissed immediate return to the table on Korea tensions as proposed by China. Officials in Tokyo maintained that the focus currently is on working 'closely' with South Korea and the United States.
The Obama administration has been left red-faced by disclosures made by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks pertaining to French president Nicholas Sarkozy that describes him as an “emperor without clothes”, Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ‘Hitler’ and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin as an “Alpha Dog”.
The Denial of Service (DoS) attack against whistle-blower site Wikileaks on Sunday was not a state-sponsored attack but was courtesy a patriot hacker called The Jester.
The Indian economy is expected to have grown a little slower in the September quarter than the previous quarter, mainly due to a drop in capital goods production.
Wikileaks documents reveal that U.S. Secretary of State in July 2009 sent a message to 33 US missions on UN reforms saying, International deliberations regarding UNSC expansion among key groups of countries: self-appointed frontrunners for permanent UNSC membership Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the documents published by whistle-blower website Wikileaks were released intentionally by the U.S. administration. In an interview to the state-run Press TV Ahmadinejad maintained that the documents would not impact the country's relations with other Arab governments.
