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And what's the name of the hurricane season's firstborn? Arthur. Originally forming near Belize and weakening while passing over the Yucatan peninsula, Arthur could gain strength if it pops up again ... Read More

Anthropologists have known about the community tucked deep into the Amazon for about two decades, but decided to release aerial photographs of the tribe for a good reason: To stress ... Read More

Stonehenge: A big, eerie formation of rocks in a verdant pasture meant to summon otherworldly beings? Or, essentially, a bunch of big headstones? For a really, really, really old cemetery, according to ... Read More

Save the Children UK today released a damning report that outlines the chronic problem of U.N. peacekeepers and aid workers in conflict-torn countries taking advantage of residents in the worst ... Read More

In the wake of China's devastating earthquake, the one-child policy limiting "legal" births has apparently been relaxed for couples whose kids were killed, disabled or severely hurt, according to the ... Read More

John Demjanjuk will now have to leave the country, after having his citizen stripped in 1986, restored in 1998, and stripped again in 2002: "In 2006, the Board of Immigration Appeals ... Read More

Immigrants in South Africa -- many who have fled crises in countries such as Zimbabwe and Somalia -- have become the brunt of anger over economic woes in mob violence ... Read More

Dmitry Medvedev has hit the road, and his first major diplomatic act as president of the Russian Federation is aimed at angering the United States. It's twofold: First, he and Chinese ... Read More

If there's one hard reality shared by the genocides of the 20th century, it's that time is running out to bring the perpetrators to justice. That's true of the relentless ... Read More

Morgan Tsvangirai has known for years that it's dangerous to take on strongman Robert Mugabe -- just consider the number arrests, beatings, and assassination attempts (four on Tsvangirai thus far) ... Read More

It's only been more than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis, right? Well, corpses are still strewn across Burma/Myanmar, the junta has still demanded that donations of foreign aid be accepted ... Read More

I've come to the conclusion that boxers are well-suited to be politicians. After all, how many politicos have the luxury of going into elections with such pugnacious reputations? Really, who ... Read More

This has to be getting frustrating for the women of Kuwait: Women were granted the right to vote and to run for parliament in 2005. In 2006, none of the ... Read More

The Emirati-owned and Jordanian-flagged ship, carrying 4,200 tons of sugar to Somalia that was donated by Denmark, was off the coast of Somalia -- well known for its pirate attacks ... Read More

Could a peaceful and stable future for Lebanon be hammered out in the conference rooms of Doha's Sheraton? Coming off a Thursday deal brokered by the Arab League, both Fuad ... Read More

As this photo gallery of the devastation shows, some key factors are contributing to the high death toll and hampering the recovery efforts: The sheer magnitude of the damage: Many ... Read More

And if he'd been waiting to exhale, on-the-ropes President Pervez Musharraf can breathe a little easier for the time being. Why? The great opposition coalition aiming to oust him from power ... Read More

First, the anointed one, Dmitry Medvedev, moved into his appointed spot as president of Russia. Before you could say "borscht," the man who got the technocrat into the Kremlin, Vladimir ... Read More

Felt as far away as Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan, the massive temblor struck Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. -- that's just east of Tibet, a region that has already seen ... Read More

It's only been nine days since Category 4 Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burmese villages. It's not like the world has been dragging its heels in coming to the people's aid. ... Read More

The amounts of money owed by the thousands of farmers taking their own lives would seem really managable to most of us, recession or not. But the crop-to-crop woes leave ... Read More

Chalk one up for Boris Tadic -- his pro-European Democratic Party has eked out a victory in parliamentary elections over the Radical Party. (The ultranationalists share the views of nationalists ... Read More

As about a million Burmese have no roof over their heads, and up to 100,000 have perished in Cyclone Nargis, the junta in Myanmar is trying to push Burmese to ... Read More

Ahh, Hassan Nasrallah is always good for a sound bite. Unfortunately, the Hezbollah leader heads up a force that is well-armed (rearmed in defiance of Security Council Resolution 1701, which ... Read More

Suffice to say this could increase religious tensions in the country -- but it should also be expected of a country that claims to be moderate. Suffice to also say ... Read More

On first glance, media reports have been branding this as either a racial vote to separate from the country's indigenous population, or the country's wealthy just wanting to rule a ... Read More

And further hampered by a few points: The unwillingness of the military junta to ask "enemies" for help. The abject poverty created by the junta's leadership, as well as general distrust of ... Read More

And what a blow it is for the Labour Party: Ken Livingstone, dubbed "Red Ken" by critics for his far-left views, was defeated today by Boris Johnson, shadow minister for ... Read More

It's about time that the powers that be stepped up and tried to defuse the growing tensions between Russia and the former Soviet state of Georgia. The Georgian regions of ... Read More