Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Iran’s top electoral body, the Guardian Council, has confirmed the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the presidential election after a partial recount.
News of the decision, which comes after a series of protests by the opposition against what it says was a rigged ballot, was announced by state TV.
The 12-strong council is the most influential body [...]
The UK prime minister has called for the release of the remaining British embassy staff detained in Tehran.
Gordon Brown said it was “unacceptable” and “unjustifiable” that the local employees had been held.
Five out of nine local staff from the UK embassy detained in Tehran have been released, Iranian officials say.
Iran’s media said the staff were [...]
Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin handed down the sentenced in New York on Monday.
The 71-year-old former Nasdaq chairman was arrested late last year after confessing to his sons that his secretive investment advisory business was a “big lie.”
He pleaded guilty to [...]
WIMBLEDON, England — Venus Williams advanced to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon when opponent Ana Ivanovic retired Monday one game into the second set.
American 17-year-old Melanie Oudin was eliminated.
Williams led 6-1, 0-1 when Ivanovic called it quits.
Ivanovic took a 10-minute break during the first game of the second set to have her left thigh taped by [...]
TEHRAN, June 28 — With the opposition visibly weakening in Iran amid a government crackdown, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters have begun to use his disputed victory in this month’s election to toughen the nation’s stance internationally and to consolidate control internally.
In recent days, they have vilified President Obama for what they call [...]
JERUSALEM — Israel would be open to a complete freeze of settlement building in the West Bank for three to six months as part of a broad Middle East peace endeavor that included a Palestinian agreement to negotiate an end to the conflict and confidence-building steps by major Arab nations, senior Israeli officials said Sunday.
The [...]
The findings of international experts should make it easier to predict which women may need special care during pregnancy.
Women who have a miscarriage are more likely to give birth prematurely in their next pregnancy, doctors have found.
The findings of an international group of experts, to be presented at the annual conference today of the European [...]
Taxpayers around the world still face potentially large losses because governments have failed to act quickly enough to remove toxic assets from the balance sheets of key banks, the world’s leading central bankers warn today.
Despite months of co-ordinated action around the globe to stabilise the banking system, hidden perils still lurk in the world’s financial [...]
There is a thread of dishonesty running through the government, says Tory leader.
David Cameron today launched a blistering personal attack on the prime minister, claiming there was a “thread of dishonesty” running through his premiership.
The Conservative leader stopped short of calling Gordon Brown a liar but claimed the prime minister said “black is white” and [...]
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president.
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann called the Honduran military’s intervention a “criminal action” and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement condemned the removal of [...]
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