China reported blistering growth for the last three months of 2009, raising expectations of interest rate increases and other measures to head off inflation. China has declared that it is recovering from the global economic crisis. Ma Jiantang, of th...
In many cases, parents abduct their own children when marriages fail and return home where local laws protect them. In some cases the abducted children never see the other parent again. MacKenzie Babb | Washington 21 January 2010 Child abduction is o...
Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail -- President Obama U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for tighter regulation of America's largest banks and lending institutions. The president's plan would...
Here I sit in my living room and there is nothing that I can do and that's killing me inside. It was sunny in New York on Wednesday where business remained brisk in Brooklyn's Flatbush district, home to many of the city's hundreds of thousands of Hai...
Thousands of Haitians in the New York area, reeling from the devastation of last week's earthquake to family back home, found some help Wednesday at a briefing by U.S. immigration officials. They walked, they took the subway, and they came to the Fed...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has agreed to lead a U.N. program that will offer jobs to Haitian youth as part of the clean-up and recovery following last week's earthquake. Last spring U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked Mr. Clinton to beco...
An eight-month-old boy found in the ruins three days after the earthquake. Doctors here at this Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince did what they could to avoid amputating his leg. But his injuries were just too severe, his parents' whereabouts...
The U.S. military has reopened the severely damaged seaport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to help improve delivery of aid to victims of last week's massive earthquake. The military has also opened three more airports to assist the flow of...
The Haitian president's front yard is being used as a landing zone for U.S. Military helicopters that are ferrying Haitian earthquake victims to three U.S. military vessels for treatment. Suzanne Presto flew in a Navy Seahawk Thursday from aboard one...
Earthquakes continue to surprise you. ... You can learn something new from each of them that will benefit future designs and future generations. Brady Cox The January 12 Haiti earthquake and its aftershocks killed or injured hundreds of thousands of...
...I found the situation in Kabul in a better situation than at any time in the year since we took office and we inherited a very difficult situation to put it bluntly. -- Ambassador Richard Holbrooke President Barack Obama's Special Representative f...
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in Pakistan for two days of meetings with civilian and military leaders, mainly to discuss America's strategy for Afghanistan. Gates says he hopes he can assure Pakistan that the United States wants to be an all...
The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia and the Middle East, General Petraeus indicated the United States would not object to new agreements as long as they do not involve tribes or local leaders who have worked with the terrorists. Al Pessin |...
Farmers in Zimbabwe say they face another difficult agricultural season, as the dry spell that has hit the country continues. Weeks into the agricultural season, the rains are nowhere near normal and the crops are showing it. Zimbabwe Farmers Union D...
Iranian opposition websites are reporting Iran has threatened to shut down 15 more newspapers and periodicals. The warning further intensifies pressure on the already limited number of papers allowed to publish. Opposition websites, including Rah e S...
