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A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria is more serious than initially feared with the death toll rising more than sixfold over the past two months, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Read more
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Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland. Read more
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He’s got an inside track on a social networking site that’s the size of a small country — but can Chris Kelly , the privacy officer at Facebook, really use that to enter a tougher world: California… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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A pesar de los asesinatos de quienes combaten el tráfico de drogas ilegales, la influencia corruptora de los dineros de la droga, la sensación de que en algunas partes del paÃs los narcotraficantes tienen la última palabra, México no es Colombia, aunque los dos son comparados con frecuencia. Read more
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Ever since liberalism emerged in the 18th century, its inevitable conflict with autocracy has helped shape international politics. What James Madison called “the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism” dominated much of the 19th century and most of the 20th, when liberal powers lined up against various forms of autocracy in wars [...]
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While world leaders gathered here to unleash soothing words on the financial tsunami swamping their economies, the daring “responsibility to protect” doctrine adopted by U.N. members three years ago was being buried in the killing fields of eastern Congo. Read more
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LONDON, May 5 — The British government on Tuesday named 16 people who have been banned from entering Britain for “fostering extremism or hatred,” including Muslim extremists, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, a U.S. radio talk show host and a Kansas preacher. Read more
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai began talking as soon as his luncheon guests had taken their seats in his wood-paneled dining room at the presidential palace in Kabul, across a long table covered with platters of lamb and rice, baskets of flatbread, and glasses of pomegranate juice. Read more
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An analysis of small changes between samples of the swine influenza virus gathered so far suggests it probably came into being sometime before mid-September last year. Read more
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party warned yesterday that a court decision to send 18 human rights and political activists back to jail has imperiled the nation’s fragile coalition government. Read more
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GUATEMALA CITY — When army helicopters landed in his village in August 1982, Francisco Velasco was away in the cornfields with the men. Then they heard the screams. Velasco rushed back home and found his wife and two baby daughters dead. Read more
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani forces attacked Taliban fighters in the Swat valley with artillery and helicopters on Wednesday after the United States called on the government to show its commitment to fighting militancy. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved bidding procedures for the rapid sale of most of Chrysler’s assets, over objections from a group of lenders who called the accelerated timetable an “absurdity.” Read more
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Washington’s special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan has said the US must put more pressure on Islamabad to counter the Taleban. Read more
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Reuters – A trader looks up at monitors on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 27, 2009. REUTERS/Eric … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Jim LaCamp Looks At Economy Recovery CBS 11 Dallas Related Quotes Symbol Price Change BAC 10.84 +0.46 C 3.31 +0.11 WFC 23.27 -0.98 By KELLY OLSEN, AP Business Writer Kelly [...]
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Play Video AP  – Mexico gets some bustle back after flu shutdown Slideshow:Swine Flu Play Video Video:Swine flu may be mild, still a threat AP Play Video Barack Obama Video:Forbidden Fruit FOX News AP – Passengers, wearing masks as a precaution against swine flu, prepare to depart from the Mexico City’s … By MARK STEVENSON and JAMES ANDERSON, Associated [...]
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SPECULATION about Gordon Brown‘s future continued last night despite his deputy insisting she would not stand for the Labour leadership if the British leader leaves office before the next election. Read more
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(May 5) – An active underwater volcano near Guam has become a hotspot for a booming population of ocean critters, despite continuous eruptions at the site. Read more