The World Food Program is pulling its operations out of much of rebel-controlled Somalia, affecting some 1 million in-need Somalis. The food aid organization is citing unacceptable demands from the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab that reached a br...
The charter is a major step toward new elections and ending the political crisis that followed controversial balloting in 2008. Scott Bobb | Harare 05 January 2010 Scene at stakeholders' conference in July 2009 to prepare for Zimbabwe's constitutiona...
Developers are not revealing the exact height of the Burj Dubai until its official debut. But they say the $1.5 billion tower will reach 200 stories into the sky. It will stretch 300 meters higher than Taiwan's Taipei 101, which currently holds the w...
Government-funded researchers hope to commercialize an idea called a mobile harbor. The developers aim to expand global shipping options while reining in carbon emissions. Kurt Achin | Seoul 04 January 2010 A computer simulation demonstrates how smal...
President Barack Obama (File) U.S. President Barack Obama has summoned top U.S. intelligence and security officials to discuss security needs after last month's attempted bombing of a U.S. jetliner. President Obama had meetings scheduled Monday at th...
Alan Silverman | Hollywood 04 January 2010 Jason Reitman, writer-director of the 2007 hit Juno, teams up with screen star George Clooney for a bittersweet comedy about a traveling business executive and his job of firing people at companies caught in...
Doug Levine | Washington 04 January 2010 Rock, blues and soul come together on a new release titled Pearl River by rising singer and guitarist Mike Zito. For Mike Zito, singing Dirty Blonde from Pearl River, the phrase up-and-comer is a thing of the...
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner rejected Iran's latest move on its uranium-enrichment efforts as a diplomatic pirouette. In an interview on French radio, Kouchner said it was out of the question the international community would accept an Ir...
Nigeria wants the US to reconsider its inclusion on a list of countries whose air travelers will be subjected to enhanced security screening techniques. The new security measures come into effect in response to the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a...
The Ugandan military says its forces in the Central African Republic have killed the acting guerilla commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. The death adds to the lengthening list of recent captures and killings of senior LRA combatants as the...
Yemeni security officials say their forces killed two members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the group US officials say is threatening foreign interests in Yemen. France joined the US and Britain in closing it embassy because of the security t...
U.S. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor says a threat from an al-Qaida affiliate led to the closure of the American embassy in Yemen. This same group has been linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner. John...
The temporary lifting of that embargo is meant to help government and UN security forces, but Liberians are divided about whether the move will help. Scott Stearns | Dakar 03 January 2010 The U.N. Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liber...
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Jewish settlers participate in a protest against the Israeli government decision to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, 3 Jan 2010 Jewish settlement councils have...
Photo: AP Margaret Chan, Director General of World Health Organization speaks at a press conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, 29 Dec 2009 World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan says she is disappointed a deal on climate change...
