The administration of US President George Bush is the most frightening in the history of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams said on Friday, denouncing US unilateralism.
Karl Greyvensteyn, the young waiter convicted of murdering his parents and brother at their home in Lynnwood Glen two years ago, on Monday sat sobbing quietly before being given three life terms.
Iraq appears to be seriously considering allowing UN weapons inspectors to return, more than three years after barring them from the country, a top US diplomat says.
Rescuers continued to search on Saturday for almost 700 people missing and feared drowned after a passenger ferry capsized and sank in stormy seas off the coast of the west African nation of Senegal, as hopes were fading that any more survivors would be found.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday chided African leaders for not consulting their people and failing to keep promises made while fighting for liberation.
In small-town California, a handful of passionate people like Dennis Borba give the dramatic clash between man and beast life in the US.
Representatives and dwellers of oil-rich Bakassi peninsula on Tuesday met President Olusegun Obasanjo, expressing support for Nigeria’s rejection of a World Court ruling ceding their territory to Cameroon.
Girls who start smoking in their early teens are two-thirds likelier to develop breast cancer later in life compared with non-smokers, a study says.
Swaziland’s Chief Justice announced on Thursday that the High Court would continue hearing the case of the alleged abduction of an 18-year-old Swazi schoolgirl by messengers of King Mswati two weeks ago, despite threats from the Royal Palace.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the army to ease restrictions on Palestinians amid increasing signs of popular resistance to Israel’s five-week occupation of major West Bank towns.