Hungary zigzags when it comes to Russia

Hungary zigzags when it comes to Russia

There's a museum in Budapest called the House of Terror. It has a metal awning with the word "terror" carved...

Golf courses suffer as recession deals a bogey

From his backyard, Joseph Leggett used to look out over the green, manicured fairways of the Palm Desert...

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Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region

Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region

The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time...

A climate change dust-up

Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an e-mail being "taken completely out of context"?

Large Hadron Collider is back online

Large Hadron Collider is back online

Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10-billion...

O.C. Marine is called a hero at Afghanistan memorial service

O.C. Marine is called a hero at Afghanistan memorial service

Reporting from Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Afghanistan -- Lance...

Sabbath protest in Jerusalem

Sabbath protest in Jerusalem

About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an...

Rocket is fired at Afghan hotel housing foreign humanitarian workers

Rocket is fired at Afghan hotel housing foreign humanitarian workers

Suspected insurgents fired a rocket Saturday at a luxury hotel that had previously come under attack, injuring two people and rekindling...

China mine death toll mounts

Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground today as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern...

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza Strip

Israeli planes carried out airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip today, injuring seven people, Palestinian medical workers said.

Venezuela's Chavez has praise for 'bad guys'

President Hugo Chavez is praising Ilich Ramirez Sanchez -- a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal," the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series...

Children starve in parched southern Madagascar

Children starve in parched southern Madagascar

Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza --...

U.S., Russia call for Iran to accept nuclear deal

Both President Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday they are losing patience with Iran and want a commitment that would ease...

'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says

'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says

With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing...

Outages dim Chavez popularity

Outages dim Chavez popularity

Power outages are hitting Henrique Vollmer's rum distillery several times a week, interrupting production, damaging equipment and...

U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit

U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit

As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the...

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Senate inquiry into Ft. Hood misplaced

Sen. Joe Lieberman's insistence on this matter smells of opportunism.

New view of mammograms

Everyone who knows the prevailing medical wisdom on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women, please stand up.

The AMA's reversal on marijuana

For all the debate over whether marijuana has medicinal value, arguments that the drug has significant palliative properties or that it...

Homophobia and AIDS funding can't coexist

Since its inception in 2003, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- PEPFAR -- has become the largest public health program in...