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.”
Two men were seriously injured during the traditional Running of the Bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona on Sunday, one day after another runner was gored to death there for the first time since 2003, media reported.
Television showed one man being gored in the neck before he was trampled under the hooves of [...]
The unrest that has rocked Iran since the June 12 election has been broadcast across the world but another fight is taking place and has received little media attention as it is an internal dispute between members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s family.
Ahmadinejad’s son-in-law, Mehdi Khurshidi Azad, has been disowned by his father because he [...]
The surviving parts of the world’s oldest Bible have been recovered and will be published online on Monday, seen as a key to unlocking its mysteries by biblical scholars.
Almost 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus, written in the fourth century on animal skin, have been pieced together and published as digital images online after [...]
Start making your holiday plans now because the Statue of Liberty’s crown has reopened for business after September the 11th denied sightseers the thrill on safety grounds.
Buy a ticket now and take your place in the queue outside in…one year’s time, such is the demand.
“To be on display again after such a fearsome terrible moment [...]
Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the happiness of their citizens.
Britain is only halfway up the Happy Planet Index (HPI), calculated by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), in 74th place of 143 nations surveyed. [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (June 27) – For one day, at least, it was OK to pack heat in church. More than 200 people answered gun-toting Pastor Ken Pagano’s call to celebrate the Second Amendment at New Bethel Church in Louisville on Saturday. There was just one rule for the several dozen who brought their guns along: [...]
A century after colonial body snatchers robbed the burial grounds of the Aborigines, British-held remains are finally being repatriated. But how does it feel to find the bones of your revered ancestors in the dusty archives of a Scottish museum?
When Tom Trevorrow was growing up on the banks of the River Murray in South Australia, [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed
Wife held in boxing champ’s killing in Brazil
NASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launchTwo injured in Pamplona bull run, day after death
Two U.S. soldiers killed, Afghan war heats up
Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator