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A Chinese policeman (center, wearing green uniform) patrols Tiananmen Square on China’s National Day Oct. 1, 2008, in Beijing, China. Thousands of people crowded the square during a weeklong holiday to celebrate the founding of communist China. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images) Read more
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Statement from the State Department: “On this the 20th anniversary of the violent suppression of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square by Chinese authorities, we should remember the tragic loss of hundreds of innocent lives and reflect upon the meaning of the events that preceded that day. Hundreds of thousands of protesters [...]
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Rob Sherman, a subject of my columns for 23 years, is now blogging at ChicagoNow, a new Tribune Companyventure that’s offering a Web home to a variety of local bloggers. Writes Sherman, Read more
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The bodies of two men from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil have been found by search teams. Search teams have been looking for the missing [...]
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Megan Fox has claimed that life in the spotlight has destroyed her confidence in recent years. Read more
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Flames engulfed a day care center in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo on Friday, killing at least 29 children and sending dozens more the hospital, an official said. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — Flames engulfed a day-care center yesterday, killing at least 29 children and injuring dozens as neighbors and teachers ran through thick smoke to pull preschoolers from the blaze, officials said. Read more
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A legislative budget committee today rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to phase out Cal Grants, a popular cash assistance program for college students. The Conference Committee on the Budget… 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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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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WASHINGTON — When the international financial crisis of the late 1990s hit Latin America hard, regional leaders pledged to find their own path to recovery and reduce their dependence on Washington-based lending institutions. Nobody could have imagined at the time that the U.S. would be the epicenter of the next international turbulence, a global credit [...]
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President Obama likes to see himself as a pragmatist, but in foreign policy he is proving to be a supreme idealist of the Woodrow Wilson variety. Read more
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Foreign lands define themselves to us through national symbols long before we learn their languages or customs. The bear reminds us to be careful of Russia and Germany, the rooster crows for France, Britain fronts the haughty lion while we Americans identify with highflying, lonely eagles. Read more
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PARIS, June 5 — The first pieces of debris picked up along the path of an Air France jetliner that went down in the Atlantic with 228 people aboard turned out not to have come from the ill-fated aircraft, French officials said Friday. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS, June 5 — The United States and its allies are pressing for the Security Council to adopt a U.N. resolution that would further restrain North Korea’s capacity to finance its military ambitions. Read more
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For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin American governments squared off against the United States over whether Cuba should be allowed to rejoin the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. Read more
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CAIRO, June 4 — President Obama’s choice of Egypt as the site of his address to the Muslim world endeared him to Egyptians, who are always proud to host a foreigner and show off their history. Read more
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BUCHENWALD, Germany, June 5 — President Obama spent an hour on Friday in silence broken only by a faint breeze, the crunch of shoes on gravel and whispered stories. This Story A Solemn Stop At Buchenwald Obama Visits the Middle East, Europe Raw Video: Obama Tours Concentration Camp Special Report: Obama Travels to the Middle [...]