One year ago, on the second anniversary of President Obamas historic Cairo University address to the Muslim World, we released the results of our 2011 Arab World polling. The findings were devastatin...
BAGHDAD -- Official figures show a slight increase in the number of Iraqis killed in violence for the last two months.Figures released by the Defense, Interior and Health Ministry on Saturday showed ...
Its hard to believe that Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne sixty years ago this February. In the words of the late historian John Grigg, "Elizabeth II deserves praise for having been a ba...
For those who believe in a society, that to some degree we are all in this together, there are three choices: resist change, stagnate or progress. So far, no one has discovered how to progress withou...
WASHINGTON -- Nothing upsets a presidents re-election groove like ugly economic numbers.A spring slowdown in hiring and a rise in the unemployment rate are weighing on President Barack Obama, while e...
NEW YORK -- For more than 50 years, the New York Mets chased that elusive no-hitter. Johan Santana finally finished the job.Santana pitched the first no-hitter in team history, helped by an umpires m...
ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani anti-terrorism court freed on Saturday four men accused of involvement in the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, said a lawyer and family members of the men.The men were arrested i...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) defended the states new voter identification law as a way to prevent election fraud during a stop in Wichita, Kan., Thursday.Kobach, the states chief electio...
What is wrong with the President sitting in a room, looking at lists and portraits of people -- a Somali man, a seventeen-year-old girl, an American citizen -- and deciding whom to kill? That, accord...
OMAHA, Neb. -- Billionaire Warren Buffett is questioning the wisdom of changes the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper plans to make this fall.Last week the Times-Picayune and three major Alabama da...
I swam out of my gene pool with some crazy-curly, violently unruly, ratty-ass hair that requires great skill, serious funds, Japanese embalming fluid, hot irons in at least three different sizes and ...
DETROIT -- Casey Crosby was one strike away from escaping a bases-loaded jam in his major league debut.Then he walked Derek Jeter, and Curtis Granderson came up.Read More... More on Detroit Sports
Social entrepreneurs are holistic thinkers who want to dissolve the walls that have traditionally separated government, business and the nonprofit sector. They believe an integrated approach -- which...
It started out a one-time bat-mitzvah project. But three years, 5,000 books, and almost 200 volunteering hours, Lilli Leight is nowhere near putting her literary mission to rest. While volunteering a...
DENVER -- After a slow start, the Colorado Rockies are hitting their stride.Wilin Rosario hit a two-run homer and Colorado took advantage of four Dodgers errors to romp past Los Angeles 13-3 Friday n...
By Samuel P. Jacobs DENVER, June 2 (Reuters) - Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama hasnt exactly been a friend to marijuana users. Sure, he has acknowledged smoking pot as a young man, but he has...
Nominated for the Oscar as best animated feature (which went to the visually brilliant but drastically unfunny Rango), A Cat in Paris is a slight but entertaining tale, most noteworthy for going old-...
Yes, were still a few weeks away from the solstice. But with Memorial Day holiday come and gone, thoughts turn to summer vacation. Heres how to find the best deals.Read More... More on Travel Tips
NEW YORK -- The agency that runs New Yorks airports has approved an expansion plan for JetBlue Airways that will add 145,000 square feet of space at JFK Airport.The Port Authority of New York and New...
Actors and producers from surrounding West End theaters are known to imbibe post-curtain here along with business people and fashion execs.Read More... More on Photo Galleries
DETROIT -- IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard insisted he doesnt regret personally fueling speculation on his Twitter account that a team owner is trying to get him fired."I have to feel like Im in contro...
LONDON -- Queen Elizabeth II went to the races Saturday, at the start of a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne.Later in the weekend shell make a trip down the River Thames, and then ta...
The first Wallander novels by Henning Mankell were published in Sweden in the early 1990s. There have been Wallander movies and TV series in Sweden, as well as a British adaptation with Kenneth Brana...
Timeless glamor, fascinating tales and a touch of intrigue, the British royal residences reflect everything that draws us to the royals themselves. To wander down their halls is to walk in the footst...
If you believe the rumored numbers, it would have been the biggest acquisition in Internet history--and you definitely should believe the numbers. In the fall of 2010, search giant Google offered nea...
Florida will defy a federal warning to stop purging people the state suspects arent U.S. citizens from voter registration rolls. Despite a Justice Department letter, objections from county elections ...
SANFORD, Fla. -- The credibility of Trayvon Martins shooter could be an issue at trial after a judge said that George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain a bond, l...
This week, Immigrants List unveiled the inductees into its second annual Local Hall of Shame. This is a list focused exclusively on the ten worst anti-immigrant local politicians in America.Read More...
The best advice you could give this week was "Dont Google Ronald Poppo face." Close-up and extremely graphic photos of the victim in last weekends face-eating attack were passed around the In...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- An armed man in Brazil has heisted an 18-carat gold-plated vibrator selling for $4,000 at a luxury sex shop.Police say he walked into the Erotica Luxo store in Brasilia, tied up a...
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