General World Affairs

Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists.  read more »

Saying it is "time to turn the page" on one of the most divisive chapters in American history, President Obama declared the U.S.  read more »

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources.  read more »

THE curious tale of the diamond that arrived in the night has returned to haunt supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is entangled in a web of allegations against Charles Taylor, the former Liberian presiden  read more »

PRAGUE — With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A.  read more »

Ciroma Mohammed is standing on the spot he says was once occupied by his house in north-east Nigeria.  read more »

United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan.  read more »

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A mammoth iceberg that struck a glacier off Antarctica, dislodged a newer chunk of ice that could affect ocean currents and also lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, according to Austra  read more »

LEAVING the car at home and catching a train to work may not be as good for the environment as you think.  read more »

An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.

Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats.  read more »

THE BRITISH and Irish governments are maintaining high-level contacts to ensure the personal and political crisis affecting the Robinson family and the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] does not collaps  read more »

(CNN) -- Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv.  read more »

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1.November 11 is Veterans Day. A veteran is a soldier who has served his/her country.  read more »

Certified school nurse Donna Martin is stocking up on face masks, hand sanitizer, tissues and information on disease prevention, but she needs parents to join her in the fight to keep H1N1, also known  read more »

KUWAIT: Four Kuwaiti women wrote their names in the history books yesterday by becoming the first females to win seats in the National Assembly almost 47 years after its inception and exactly four yea  read more »

The Pope gave his most forthright endorsement of a Palestinian state yesterday as his Holy Land pilgrimage took him to a refugee camp in the shadow of Israel’s controversial “separation barrier”  read more »

Key developments on H1N1 (swine flu) outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and government officials:  read more »

Aid to Africa has been under fire recently due to the continuing poverty and violence in many African countries. In this editorial, Greg Mills looks at some of the problems with aid to Africa.  read more »

IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has brought an urgent court application to order the government to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama "in the nearest future" to enable him to participate in a postponed pe  read more »

The Chinese authorities are marking the first of a new national holiday - "Serfs' Liberation Day".  read more »

Sea level rises could bust official estimates – that's the first big message to come from the climate change congress that kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today.  read more »