LONDON: Europe, seeking to fill a diplomatic vacuum in the Middle East left by the departing Bush administration, is sending two missions to try to broker a cease-fire in Gaza and offering more humani  read more »

Residents of restive North Kivu are demanding Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila hold talks with renegade army general Laurent Nkunda to resolve the escalated violence in the region.  read more »

John McCain insisted yesterday that his selection of Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska and mother of five, as his running mate last Friday was taken after solid background checks.  read more »

PONCE DE LEON - When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay a  read more »

Just days after being appointed Barack Obama's campaign liaison for the Muslim faith, the Metro Detroit native in that role has stepped down.  read more »

John McCain on Abortion, Marriage, Stem Cell research, Internet laws

Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life

Overturning Roe v. Wade

The Church of England was thrown into disarray last night after its ruling body, the General Synod, rejected a series of amendments by traditionalists opposed to the ordination of women bishops.  read more »

A suicide bomb that struck Kabul on Monday blew off the gates of the Indian Embassy, where Afghans often line up for visas to leave the country.  read more »

On Saturday, Obama announced the news he was leaving his church in Chicago -- as most of the political press corps was covering the DNC meeting in DC. It sure looked like a bad news dump.  read more »

Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers gathered at Stonehenge today to cheer the dawn of the longest day of the year - the summer solstice.  read more »

Stonehenge served as a burial ground for much longer than had previously been believed, new research suggests.

The site was used as a cemetery for 500 years, from the point of its inception.  read more »

In the race to the Democratic nomination, tensions between the campaigns of rival Sens.  read more »

The leader of Hamas said Monday that his Palestinian militant group would offer Israel a 10-year "hudna," or truce, as implicit proof of recognition of Israel if it withdrew from all lands it seized i  read more »

Texas lawmakers joined with state child and health advocates Tuesday to defend the removal of 416 children from a polygamous sect's ranch and the separation, a day earlier, of older children from thei  read more »

New Delhi: India has asked the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, not to engage in political activities that could hurt the country’s ties with China, media reports said on Tuesday.  read more »

Scientists have detected the faint genetic traces left by medieval crusaders in the Middle East.  read more »

KATHMANDU—Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, RFA's Tibetan service reports.  read more »

LHASA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Memories of horror were alive again.  read more »

ANGELA Merkel, the German Chancellor, will face several empty seats during her address to the Israeli Parliament next week, after an MP said he would rather boycott the speech than listen to the langu  read more »

A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday.  read more »

A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible  read more »

The Hejab (veil) remains a source of great controversy. Women and girls are no longer permitted to don the veil in French public schools.  read more »

Rebel leaders in Chad are giving conflicting statements about a possible cease-fire, while Chad's government is declaring victory after rebels failed to take the capital N'Djamena in last week's fight  read more »

The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus.  read more »

I have a dream...  read more »