The administration of President George Bush on Monday reacted icily to gestures made by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to former US president Jimmy Carter.
In an unusually personal and public rebuke, the International Monetary Fund’s top economist on Tuesday accused Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz of slander, self-aggrandisement and intellectual vanity.
Corporate governance and accounting reform in America will be on the front burner on Tuesday, as the Securities and Exchange Commission start cleaning up big business.
Environmental groups and biotech companies are accusing each other of exploiting starvation in much of southern Africa for political gain as countries in the region try to determine whether it is safe to use genetically engineered crops to relieve famine.
President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney call Saddam Hussein the ”enemy.” Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compares him to Adolf Hitler.
The US Justice Department sharply eased restrictions on domestic spying on Thursday, handing the FBI broad, new authority to monitor Internet sites, libraries and churches.
A study that found adult blood stem cells were unable to transform themselves into other types of tissue raises new doubts about whether they could be used to reinvigorate ailing organs.
Iraq’s people and its military will quickly desert President Saddam Hussein in the event of a US blitzkrieg against his regime, a key exiled opposition leader claimed on Thursday, ahead of talks with senior US officials.
The militant Islamic group Hezbollah has amassed thousands of surface-to-surface missiles in southern Lebanon, including weapons missiles with sufficient range to strike cities in northern Israel.
The United States on Tuesday signaled it was still interested in talking to a former US soldier believed to have defected to North Korea in 1952, hoping he can help trace Americans still missing from the Korean war.
US authorities announced on Tuesday that they have a suspect in a series of pipe bombs planted in mailboxes in five US states.
Microsoft’s flagship word processor has a security flaw that could allow the theft of computer files by ”bugging” a document with a hidden code, the company disclosed on Thursday.
Researchers studying people who are resistant to HIV have found a group of natural proteins that seem to inhibit the progressive infection of the virus that causes Aids, a finding that could lead to new therapies.
President George Bush will offer resumed direct mail services and new aid programmes to Cuba, but will maintain the US embargo until the Communist-ruled island returns to democracy.
US researchers say they have found protein markers in a blood test that can be used to eliminate unneeded biopsies by sharpening the diagnosis of prostate cancer, the second deadliest form of cancer among American men.
A medication tested on mice has proven effective in treating cancerous tumours by attacking the blood vessels that feed them.
A dozen US and British warplanes bombed a ”critical command and control node” in western Iraq in a raid that was larger than usual but not out of the ordinary, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Four prisoners held by the US military at a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of an anti-terrorism probe have tried to commit suicide
The US Congress early on Friday gave President George Bush authority to go to war against Iraq, citing a ”continuing threat” posed by Baghdad’s alleged weapons buildup.
Detectives sifted through dirt and leaves as they looked for blood, fibres, hair or any other evidence to assist their investigation into the death of Chandra Levy.
The US Roman Catholic Church has removed 218 priests from their positions this year because of allegations of child sexual abuse, although at least 34 known offenders remain in church jobs.
The dark salty sauce that adds a kick to stir-fry or a tang to grilled salmon is a new source of conflict between Japan and the United States.
A GAY youth cannot be banned from taking his boyfriend to a school dance at a Roman Catholic high school, a Canadian judge ruled on Friday.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela says that the United States poses a threat to world peace, due to what he sees as a series of foreign policy mistakes made over the past several decades.
The United States welcomed the release of a report this week on slavery in Sudan and called on Khartoum to take action to prevent the practice and punish slave traders.
Attack of the killer potatoes? What a strange week it’s been for President George Bush’s spokesman, capped by his sputtering over spuds.
US Democrats protested yesterday after a Bush-appointed judge threw out an attempt to force the White House to name executives consulted in the formation of its energy policy.
US President George Bush will meet on Wednesday with
congressional leaders at the White House to discuss US policy towards Iraq, while Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will brief legislators on Capitol Hill on the Iraq policy, top government officials said here.
A new diagnostic device allowing to detect the Aids virus in as little as 20 minutes has received government approval in the United States in what officials described as a major step toward curbing
the deadly epidemic.
RUSSIA’S foreign minister late on Wednesday echoed US officials’ optimism that negotiations here this week would settle differences on deep nuclear arms reductions before a US-Russian summit in Moscow later this month.
A top White House official on Sunday dismissed the Kyoto Protocol, the first coordinated world response to tackling global warming by requiring industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
Journalists at The Washington Post withheld their names from articles, photographs and artwork to protest management contract proposal
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