The State Department made it clear that it wants the independence vote in south Sudan set for January 2011 to be held as scheduled.

Millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions have been destroyed years ahead of deadlines mandated by an August 2010 treaty.

A tsunami followed by a volcano eruption in Indonesia claimed more than 400 lives and displaced thousands.

A report from prominent British medical and legal experts claims that Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act is being abused.

The Vatican has urged Iraq not to carry out the death sentence meted out to Iraq’s former foreign minister Tariq Aziz.

The wave of deportations is remarkable both for the nakedness of its racism and the ugly shadows from history it has let loose.