This year has been one of natural calamities, when nature showed its power and humanity across the world had to cope with the consequences.
The year started with the Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, most famous for his role in the Terminator movies, has been replaced by Jerry Brown as the governor of California.
As Schwarzenegger departs public office after seven years...
No dictator has hardly left power willfully or peacefully(Idi Amin Dada, Bokassa, Milosevic...). Dictators especially the ones with repeatedly atrocious human rights abuses like Gbagbo only step...
Dutch Muslims today offered to guard three Coptic churches in the Netherlands which have been threatened on an Al-Qaeda-linked website after a New Years Day bombing killed 21 Coptic Christians...
Dutch Muslims today offered to guard three Coptic churches in the Netherlands which have been threatened on an Al-Qaeda-linked website after a New Years Day bombing killed 21 Coptic Christians...
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, promising Israel would never...
The governor of Pakistan's most politically important province of Punjab has been killed after shootings in a popular market in the capital Islamabad.
Police said Salman Taseer, a high-profile...
By Magnus Mazimpaka November 16, 2010
Rwandan prosecution is asking the United States to help investigate Paul Rusesabagina, a man wrongfully portrayed as a hero in the movie, Hotel Rwanda.
Based...
Côte d'Ivoire is a political impasse following the presidential election that was supposed to reunite the country. What went wrong?
After the failed coup of 2002 has turned into rebellion with...
DALLAS – A Texas man had his conviction overturned Tuesday for a rape and robbery he didn't commit after serving 30 years in prison, more time than any other inmate subsequently exonerated...
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a meeting with Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sunday. Rousseff was sworn in as...
HONOLULU President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the...
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TOKYO – Japan's population fell by a record amount last year as the number of deaths climbed to an all-time high in the quickly aging country, the government said...
Wana JF nimejaribu kupitia ripoti mbalimbali za kuhusu uchaguzi wa Ivory Coast na ninapata mashaka kukubali media stories kwamba Outtara alishinda. Lakini pia napata tatizo la kuamina Gbagbo...
Tanzania has banned Kenyan dealers from buying onions at the farm gate in the Lake Eyasi basin.
The ban which was imposed by local authorities also blocks farmers from signing any contract for...
An explosion at a bar near a barracks in Nigeria's capital has killed a number of people.
Nigeria's military chief said a bomb had been planted to target people celebrating New Year's Eve in Abuja...
WASHINGTON - The national Democratic Party chairman in the United States says he thinks the chances that President Barack Obama will face a serious primary challenger in 2012 are "virtually nil."...