Leaders of the world's top economies ended a two-day summit in Cannes committed to boosting growth and staunching Europe's spreading financial crisis, though leaving the specifics of how they will do so unclear. In one significant step, leaders of th...
This has been a bittersweet week for Cindy Hickey, the mother of Shane Bauer, the American hiker who became engaged to Sarah Shourd during their prison stay. On the one hand, Hickey said she is thrilled by Tuesday's news that Shourd, who suffered sev...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. Unless youre talking about killer bees, its hard to imagine a situation in which killers and bees would be related. But it turns out that scientists are...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said North Korea must commit to irreversible disarmament steps if it returns to multilateral nuclear talks. Clinton held separate meetings on North Korea with her counterparts from Russia, China, Japan and Sou...
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has reaffirmed his intention to withdraw American combat forces from Iraq after taking office. Mr. Obama spoke as a top member of the Bush administration admitted that U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq after the 2003 i...
By Paula Wolfson White House 29 May 2008 U.S. President George Bush is urging America to commit itself to the restoration of Iraq, drawing parallels to the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. At the same time, a former top Bush aide is makin...
By David Gollust Annapolis 27 November 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed Tuesday to make every effort to conclude a two-state peace accord by the end of next year. The commitment was announced by P...
By Sarah Simpson Abuja 06 October 2007 Nigeria gave seven soldiers a state burial in the federal capital Abuja on Friday. The seven were killed while on a peacekeeping mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Sarah Simpson reports for VOA from Abuj...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 22 July 2007 President Bush's homeland security advisor says the United States wants to work with Pakistan to shut down terrorist outposts along the Pakistani-Afghan border. But Frances Townsend also makes clear, the Bush...
By Tom Rivers London 22 November 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Wednesday to push for increased NATO participation in Afghanistan. Speaking in parliament, he also said Sudan must sign off on all outstanding issues that would allow fo...
