AP - The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana would send…
AP - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was promoted to a key post in the Communist Party’s military committee Monday, affirming his path to be the country’s leader within three…
AP - International officials once visited this straw-hut town to examine skeletal children and make plans to combat a brewing famine. Now six months later, fears of mass hunger are…
AP - The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape — clearing thousands of…
AFP - The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie is determined to play down Friday’s one-year anniversary of the freeing of the Libyan man convicted of blowing up an airliner over…
AP - President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that Mexico’s cartels in many cases have moved beyond drugs as their main money-earner and are even trying to supplant the government in…
Time.com - After 2011, the U.K. plans to drop the national census and find cheaper, more accurate ways to figure out the demographics of the nation. But what are the…
AP - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan on Thursday acknowledged having “vigorous debates” behind closed doors with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, but said he and the ousted NATO commander acted in…
AP - Students in this refugee camp study in stifling hot metal shipping containers, and there’s no space in the crammed U.N. classrooms for thousands of incoming first graders because…