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Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women. Complete Story...
Police strike in Rio, bringing fears for CarnivalIsrael Hayom | Incitement to genocide? Whatever ...Indian PM resists pressure on Iran sanctionsFire Fountains and Lava Flow During Etna's Latest Eruption Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north QueenslandChina says top cop spent a day in US consulateThings to Consider while Selecting Hospital Privacy Curtains!
William H. Bickers: Lebanon Should Invade Syria
Jack Soetopo: Indonesia Military (TNI) to acquire unmanned spy plane in 2012Patrick Crowley: Well, If The Plutonium Enrichment In Iran Is The Key To Why Scientists Are Being Killed ?
iqbal.latif: Who is going to nail the '95 Theses' edict on the door of Alazhar or Shiite Marjah in Najaf or Qum? 'Cometh the hour, cometh the man.' 
Kevin Mirek: Israel Should Immediately Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons
The U.S. Congress has approved the transfer of a second Coast Guard ship to the Philippines, an official said Friday as Washington shifts its military ties with the Southeast Asian nation that has been engaged in a territorial spat with China.
Liechtenstein's royal family has indicated it would veto the results of any referendum that removed the prince's power to veto the results of referendums.
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
A list of winners of the 2010 World Press Photo contest:
A Singapore court has ruled four people can be extradited to the U.S. to face conspiracy charges related to the smuggling of radio control devices to Iran, including 16 items found in improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
Turkey's state-run television says a woman was killed when a bomb she was carrying went off in Istanbul.
A German court is set to deliver its verdict in the trial of an alleged Islamic extremist who has admitted killing two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport last year.
A Chinese court has sentenced a dissident writer to seven years in prison over a poem he wrote urging his countrymen to gather at a public square, a human rights group said Friday.
Turkey and Iran, regional heavyweights and heirs to imperial pasts, expanded trade in the past decade and papered over their traditional rivalry with diplomacy and rhetoric. Now these neighbors have staked out opposing positions in Syria, where outside players seek to sway an outcome to the bloodshed that could, in turn, alter power balances in the Middle East.
Authorities have charged a Guinean army colonel in connection with a 2009 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators at a soccer stadium, making him the first high-ranking official to face trial for the atrocities.
In the run-up to this city's huge Carnival, the cash register at the souvenir shop where Vania Alves works is normally buzzing as hoards of revelers scoop up rubber thong sandals, teeny bikinis and sarongs printed with the Brazilian flag.
When local police arrived in riot gear to evict the Vuon clan, family members were ready with homemade land mines and improvised shotguns. In a guerrilla-style ambush reminiscent of a Vietnam War battle, they wounded six officers.
A candidate who claimed victory in the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia has been hospitalized in grave condition after a police raid on her headquarters, officials said Friday.
The argument began over the seemingly minor offense of eating on the subway, which is banned in Hong Kong. A local commuter was outraged that a girl in a tour group from mainland China spilled noodles onto the floor.
The push by Afghanistan's president to nationalize legions of private security guards before the end of March is encouraging corruption and jeopardizing multibillion-dollar aid projects, according to companies trying to make the switch.
Swiss police appealed for witnesses Friday after a car hit a group of people standing outside a Zurich bar, killing one person and injuring five others.
The violent repression of public protest in Syria that is rapidly approaching an all out civil war has most of the world’s nations concerned; but for different reasons. When an Arab League supported resolution came to the U.N.
Time to Call Iran's Bluff on Oil?Iranian lawmakers this week expressed support for a measure that would beat the European Union to the punch by cutting off oil exports before the summer.
A note from Ambassador Ford on recent events in Syria #Genocideclip from article: First, like people around the world, my colleagues and friends are watching the video coming out of Homs and some of the other Syrian cities in the last days with horror and revulsion. I hear the devastating stories about newborns in Homs dying in hosp …
Syrian activist recounts horrors #Genocide #SOSHomsclip from article:When I met the pro-democracy activist Danny Abdul Dayem back in September 2011 after he fled Syria with his family to the UK, I asked if he would go back, his answer was simple "I hopefully will go back, my friends are being killed everyday".
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC NewsChinese imports fall sharply in JanuaryChinese imports fell sharply in January, a sign of sluggish domestic demand that will fuel concerns about whether the fragile global economy can count on China as a bastion of growth.
thanks AVAAZ - YouTube from brave citizen journalists in Syria Posted: 8 February 2012This urgent video appeal just came in from one of Avaaz's brave citizen journalists in Syria -- our community may be the only one that can help Danny and his friends before the next massacre.
Fouad Ajami: A Kosovo Model for #Syria - WSJ.com #Genocideclipped from article: BY FOUAD AJAMIThe bloodshed and the brutality of the dictatorship in Syria are at long last beginning to challenge the passivity of the Obama administration.
Video of Chinese toddler sobbing in snow sparks outrage over parenting -A video of a toddler crying while running in the snow nearly naked has sparked a firestorm in China, but the boy's father says the exercise was meant to strengthen his son. "It's tough for me, too, when he cried out for my comfort," father He Liesheng said.
Israel urges world to reject Palestinian unity gov'tAmid continuing uncertainty regarding what the Doha agreement between Fatah and Hamas actually means, Israel is stepping up its demand that the international community not accept an unreformed Hamas as part of the Palestinian Authority government. “The international c …
Now is the time to fight for Jewish refugees Some years ago, a daughter of the wealthy Jewish Castro family from Egypt heard Anwar Sadat’s widow Jehan deliver a talk in New York. Congratulating her afterwards, the Egyptian Jewess exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Sadat.
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