Category: North America

Celebrity power couple Gwyenth Paltrow and Chris Martin are not merely divorcing; they are consciously uncoupling. In a Tuesday night post announcing the end of their ten-year marriage, under the...

North Korea, increasingly in need of cash to pay for things like armies, missiles, and food, has developed a rather healthy illicit economy that includes DVD trafficking and drug smuggling. A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is once again faced with the complicated reality of following through on his tough warnings against overseas provocations as the White House asserts that...

(AFP) – The United States on Monday condemned a bomb attack on a packed bus station in Nigeria which killed 71 people, and called for a full investigation. “We are...

WASHINGTON -- "Not all" Republicans are racist, said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) on Sunday, but "to a significant extent, the Republican base has elements that are animated by racism, and...

A Beijing court has upheld a four-year prison term for a prominent Chinese legal activist for supporting anti-corruption protests, the defence lawyer said, drawing criticism and calls for his release...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 has been recorded off Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island, the US Geological Survey says. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said on Friday...

A Chinese anti-corruption campaigner has gone on trial in Beijing, according to his lawyer, joining two others who appeared in court this week as China's government cracks down on activists....

Initial counts of Indonesia's parlaimentary poll has put the opposition Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) ahead, but it is unlikely to get enough seats to independently field a presidential candidate....

The Philippine Supreme Court has struck down a legal challenge to a controversial birth control law that supporters say could transform the lives of millions of poor Filipinos, despite bitter...