Human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation into violent clashes between Egyptian security forces and Sudanese protestors last week that left some 30 people dead and scores injured...

America’s seniors are strongly dissatisfied with the Bush administration’s Medicare prescription drug plan, according to a new poll by Peter D. Hart Research Associates...Among those who do have an opinion, a whopping 63 percent say they are dissatisfied with the Medicare drug plan and just 37 percent are satisfied

Cuba"s Ambassador to Hanoi Jesus Aise Sotolongo highlighted the special relations between his country and Vietnam on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Talk of censure and impeachment has begun swirling around President Bush. Can Vice President Cheney come to the rescue? He will do so if enough of Bush's opponents adopt the position of this Philadelphia Daily News op-ed writer -- the position that impeaching Bush would be a mistake, since Cheney is worse than Bush.

When Evo Morales won his stunning December 18 presidential election victory, he did more than become the latest in a string of populist, left-leaning candidates to take office in an uninterrupted sweep which has witnessed comparable triumphs in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and now Bolivia.

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) is a penniless ranch hand looking for summer work to save money for his upcoming wedding to Alma (Michelle Williams). An unscrupulous boss (Randy Quaid) hires him with Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain.

After weeks of negotiations war-torn Cote d’Ivoire’s new prime minister has formed a transitional government that has 10 months to reunite the country, disarm fighters and hold presidential elections.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact...  the Director of the CIA told him not to register a prisoner with the Red Cross...he obeyed, and several months later the prisoner was still not registered.

It is common wisdom on the political right that tax cuts stimulate economic growth. President Bush and the Republican-dominated Congress insist that the nearly $900 billion in tax cuts (overwhelmingly aimed at the nation’s richest households) enacted since 2001 have saved the country's economy from deeper recession.

We as Americans said "enough is enough." We sacrificed a lot when we showed up in DC and other cities around the country in the hundreds of thousands to protest against and show that we withdraw any consent to be governed by murderous thugs.

The poll was closely watched by the international community, which has been highly critical of Guinea in the past over a perception of corruption and lack of democracy.The West African nation – one of the world’s poorest despite its wealth of water and mineral resources – has a history of polls marred by violence and boycotted by the opposition.

Last December I wrote the following: "2004 should be remembered as a year when the hermetically sealed divide between sports and society frayed for the first time in a generation... I cannot wait to see what 2005 has in store.

Kurt Vonnegut, at age 82, has published over two dozen books.  His latest is called "A Man Without a Country."  It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I think – overly hopeless, and yet humorous.

Chile’s Communist party pledged yesterday to back presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet in a tight run-off in January against a rightist alliance... Bachelet narrowly missed becoming Chile’s first woman president in December elections when she failed to win more than 50 per cent of the vote over three other candidates.

The island closes 2005 on an upbeat with a spectacular 11.8 percent GDP growth. Higher salaries and pensions, new education, public health, social security and power generation programs, and the pride of Cubans to be able to offer growing assistance to nations on several continents are part of the general optimism.

A new report looks into instances in which the Bush Administration leaked classified information to support its case that Iraq was a threat to the United States... With impeccable timing, on the eve of the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks, top Bush officials appeared on the Sunday talk shows to discuss the aluminum tube story that someone among them had just planted in the New York Times.

Nothing succeeds like success. Mel Brooks deservedly won an Oscar for his seminal screenplay for The Producers in 1968. The comedy marked his auspicious directorial debut and has, rightly, achieved classic status, showcases one of cinema's finest and funniest musical numbers - Springtime for Hitler.

U.S. President George W. Bush in his speech on December 14 said, "my decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision," while admitting that "much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Our people went to the elections on 15th December 2005 with the hope that it would constitute an important juncture along the path of restoring security and stability, as well as for mapping a democratic path not only for the Iraqi people, but also for the peoples of the region.

THE WTO Ministerial Conference, which commenced in Hongkong on December 13, 2005, adopted a declaration on December 18, after six days of acrimonious negotiations between the developed and the developing countries.