A wry old anti-nuclear slogan used to say "One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day." If you're British, and...
With oil prices setting new highs nearly every day, wind power is getting another look. But, like most weather reports,...
Australians had high hopes for the Pacific weather pattern known as La Nina. That periodic cooling of the eastern Pacific...
Alleged human rights abuses by soldiers guarding a Burmese pipeline have revived old questions about pipeline co-owner Chevron's relationship with...
Songbirds fly thousands of miles to return to the northern hemisphere every spring, just as regularly as the sun comes...
The poorest nation in the Middle East is also proving to be one of the most potentially volatile. Yemen --...
With regulations tightening in China, Western couples are increasingly looking to Vietnam for overseas adoptions. But the trend is creating...
Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez has been deeply involved in recent months in trying to resolve the long-running standoff over...
Although most of the world's political powers, including the United States, have condemned the Myanmar junta's crackdown on reformist protesters,...
By Mindy Kay Bricker, special to Newsdesk.org PRAGUE (Newsdesk.org) -- Gypsy women who say they were sterilized against their will...
A former CIA analyst is critical of the Bush administration's war on terrorism. But his solution -- a re-evaluation of...
By Jennifer Hamm AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- After a 19-year-old man of Moroccan descent was run down and killed by a...
