President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists.

Join the vigil outside the Israeli Embassy Remember Gaza: end the siege Sunday 27 December 2009, 3pm High Street Kensington, W8, London (Nearest tube: High St Kensington)

Religious intolerance is both widespread culturally and institutionalized in some countries world wide. US scored fairly well. Worst nations: Pakistan, Egypt, Iran and Bangladesh. In 10% of countries, it leads to terrorism.

ATLANTA (Dec. 17, 2009) - Five years after the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Habitat for Humanity has assisted more than 22,500 families in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

Intense nagotiations to save the life of Saharan hunger striker Aminatou Haidar and allow her to return to her home in Moroccan-controled Western Sahara bore fruit Thursday night, when she was loaded by stretcher into a plane leaving Canary Islands.

At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them abusive, earned praise and commendations while serving in the Army and the Marines, includi

Fake "North Korean" missiles have been hurtling over the Pacific toward the U.S. for years, providing test fodder for the Pentagon's missile-defense systems. But next month, the fake enemy missiles flying over the same ocean are going to be "Iranian." The

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Friday charged Khmer Rouge former head of state Khieu Samphan with genocide, a tribunal spokesman said.

As the PM prepared to sip champagne over dinner with Robert Mugabe and more than 100 other world leaders, he told reporters that 'the conditions for an agreement are now there'.

A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms.