The local food movement is growing in the United States. Restaurant owners and families look to nearby farms for fruits, vegetables and meat. Now small forest owners want to join the local food party. They're promoting edible mushrooms, berries, and...
A new wave of strikes in Greece disrupted transportation and closed schools, banks and courts Wednesday, while similar protests took place in other European Union countries against government austerity measures. Greeks took to the streets for the sec...
New York, the state with the nation's largest metropolitan area, is also home to 2.5 million hectares of protected mountain wilderness. Conservationists believe that protection is why moose - which were nearly wiped out in the area - have started to...
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping federal tax bill that will swell America's national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars and, it is hoped, stimulate a lagging U.S. economy. Attention now shifts to the House of Representative...
Russia spent much of 2010 trying to mend fences with the West. It settled a big border dispute with Norway, and normalized relations with Ukraine, after a pro-Kremlin leader took over. But Russia's biggest change is with two big adversaries: Poland a...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in jail after Swedish prosecutors appealed a British judge's decision to grant bail. Assange is wanted for questioning in connection with allegations of sexual molestation and rape in Sweden. A British jud...
Chinese media has come out with a report saying that more than 40 million foreigners around the world are learning Chinese. The reports quote a senior official with the Confucius Institute Headquarters. We decided to see how fast Chinese language lea...
One of the most popular books in the United States right now is by an author who has been dead for a century. The Autobiography of Mark Twain is the first of three volumes which make up writer Samuel Clemens' final work. On hold for 100 years This is...
Chinese economic authorities have signaled that fighting rising prices will be their top priority next year. China's government set an average inflation rate target this year of 3 percent, but some economists expect the rate to top that figure. Last...
A new partnership is being launched to develop a malaria vaccine that would prevent parasites from entering the liver. Most of the symptoms of the disease develop after parasites have had time to replicate there. A new partnership is being launched t...
Oscar nominations could go to Mark Wahlberg and co-star Christian Bale for their performances in a new drama directed by David O. Russell and based on the true story of a boxing champion from a working-class Boston neighborhood. Here's a look at The...
After months of drought, storms pounded Lebanon during the weekend, destroying or damaging most of the 60 homes in Jal al-Bahr, one of Lebanon's poorest communities of Palestinian refugees. On the shores of the Mediterranean in southern Lebanon, wate...
Deforestation has contributed to major floods while also worsening chronic hunger problems in North Korea but now the communist-led government is supporting a small but growing effort to recover the hillsides with fruit and nut trees. For more than f...
Richard Holbrooke died Monday at the age of 69 after undergoing heart surgery. The longtime diplomat's death drew reaction from around the world. Words of praise showered from Islamabad to Brussels toward U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died Mon...
Russian authorities closed Red Square and cordoned off the Kremlin after President Dmitry Medvedev warned race riots threaten the stability of the state. Hundreds of riot police, dressed in black helmets and bullet-proof vests closed off public squar...
