Some of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death.

If one is to believe the threats that are ramping up at warp speed, Israel will...

The activities of banned terrorist outfits will definitely be a humongous task to stop because they were allegedly created and nurtured by Pakistan's military, an editorial has claimed.

Banned...

Proposed NSW planning guidelines allow anyone with a residence within two kilometers to veto a wind power project, but not coal seam gas. State planning minister Brad Hazzard released draft...

The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the...

If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends....

The right response to the lingering malaise in housing is to keep trying to persuade banks to take some short-term losses to minimize the long-term cost of the housing...

Zev Yaroslavsky is seen listening to speakers at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting about various supervisorial redistricting...

Last week, a Haitian judge ruled that former dictatorJean-Claude Duvaliershould not stand trial for human rights abuses - not for lack of evidence but because the statute of limitations had expired....

By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government last week showed its determination to maintain improved ties with New Delhi, defying public anger over the torture...

By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury DHAKA - Prime Minister Hasina's Awami League government is pushing through construction of a 1,320-megawatt coal-fired power plant, the country's largest, in ...

By M K Bhadrakumar If a date needs to fixed marking the end of "post-Soviet era" in world politics, it might fall on February 4, 2012. Russia and China's double veto of the Arab...

Syria and those 'disgusting' BRICS By Pepe Escobar A Greek choir of the "disgusted" and the "outraged" predictably greeted BRICS members Russia and China double veto...

By Melody Kemp One of the first indications that change was afoot in Myanmar came when President Thein Sein announced last year the suspension of the China-backed, US$3.6 billion Myitsone dam...

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius last week that he believed Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and...

By Neeta Lal DELHI - India's liberals are crying foul after a book launch by acclaimed Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin was cancelled in Kolkata, West Bengal, following protests from ...

Gold and bonds as options on the inflation rate By Spengler Investors generally misunderstand gold. It is not a hedge against inflation, not, at least, against the sort of inflation we see in ...

By Farkhad Sharip As a part of Lukoil's incessant attempts to consolidate its presence in the energy sector of Central Asia, on January 17, the Russian company's board of executives...

My wife had her first mammogram last month. There was a spot on the image. The doctor wanted a closer look. So, a few days later, she had an ultrasound. She is fine. But in the moments between...

Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney. When Mitt Romney stated that he is "not concerned about the very poor," this...

University of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham I have to admit, Kyle Whittingham's new approach to coaching is innovative — "coaching by committee." The offense now has a separate...

I have noticed recently that the tea party group is going to spend a lot of money to try and unseat and defeat Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election. I support many of the things that the tea party...

With the Florida primary behind us, pundits are now pouring through its exit polls to come up with numbers to tell us where Mitt Romney's strengths and weaknesses lie. Pollsters are doing the...

To the Editor:
Re "In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U. S.," by Dana Frank (Op-Ed, Jan. 27):
Ms. Frank's insinuations about the Honduran government's illegitimacy are offensive to the 56.6...

I f we didn’t have enough to worry about on the subway from catching the flu to dealing with a likely fare hike, along come amateur paparazzi to deal with. A company of pests promises to...

Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a coordinated...

Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison...

Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me...

By court order, Occupy Pittsburgh must get off BNY Mellon Green by today, but while many of the tents were removed Sunday, it was not clear whether all of the protesters would be gone. Matt Wheeler,...

Just as the state Supreme Court is stepping into the modern era by tweeting its rulings and allowing TV broadcasts of some sessions, its rules panel wants to take a big step backward. The Criminal...

The Congressional Budget Office has not been in the habit of handing out valentines, and so it was last week when it offered its latest annual outlook on the federal government's economic...

At the height of his popularity in the early 1970s, "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was more influential as far as young people were concerned than Congress, the president or the press....

At Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama delivered a fascinating address, pointing out the shared values of the world's major religions while constantly...

For more than two years, people in Utah and Washington have followed the saga of Susan Powell's disappearance, hoping for some good news. It never came. Now we have seen the most horrific and...

To the Editor:
Re "An Assault on Democracy" (editorial, Jan. 24): When the Ecuadorean newspaper El Universo claimed that President Rafael Correa ordered troops to shoot innocent civilians...

To the Editor:


"Ruling on Contraception Draws Battle Lines at Catholic Colleges" ("Political Science" series, front page, Jan. 30) highlights the controversy over Catholics and contraception...

In a better world - specifically, a world with a better policy elite - a good jobs report would be cause for unalloyed celebration. In the world we actually inhabit, however, every silver lining...

WHEN the United States announced last week that its combat troops in Afghanistan would be withdrawn by mid-2013, there was obvious relief. But it was followed by familiar concerns.


One of the...

President Obama usually deserves high marks for his efforts to curb the spread of dangerous nuclear technology. But his administration's decision not to insist on an important nonproliferation...

Protesters pack out Tahrir Aquare, one year on from the start of the rising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. The streets of Cairo were full of protesters on January 27, two days after the first...

Egyptian citizens have accused the police and military of failing to intervene on February 1 to stop clashes at an Egyptian football match that killed at least 74 people. Dozens of angry protesters...

Cutting the working day to a maximum of seven hours, eliminating subcontracted work and raising maternity leave to a period of five months were some of the proposals put forward by thousands of...

New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) rushes for a touchdown in front of New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo (51) during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game,...

I experienced the reality firsthand a week ago. I was interviewing Razia, an Afghan single mother, in the small apartment she shares with her three children in Aghios Panteleimonas square in Athens...

A core tenet of human rights is that they apply equally to everyone. But when it comes to ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe today, popular attitudes and political debate suggest otherwise. In...

David Osmek's commentary ("Stop the light-rail obsession," Feb. 2) was misleading, because he conveniently ignored the staggering costs of business as usual -- which seems to be his...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped notably during the Obama administration -- from a high of 11.9 million in 2007 to 11.2 million in 2010. That fact may be lost on...

LOS ANGELES The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose...

FactCheck.org , which tracks accuracy in political messaging, found that the "avalanche of negativity" in recent Florida ads also contained a fair share of distortions and outright lies. ...