16 Americans died in a series of helicopter crashes and Taleban attacks across Afghanistan in one of the bloodiest days since the 2001 invasion. Ten people were killed and at least 26 wounded when a Chinook helicopter crashed....more.

An al-Qaida linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people as Iraq's political leadership on Tuesday stepped up efforts to agree on new voting guidelines ahead of January election

Think global act local..Well i'd like to ask my global and local friends to take a minute,to support my local bus service.."small beans"? never..if we don't take action over battle's like this,then we lose the whole fight.

Warning Signs of Abuse and How to Report It.Facts about child abuse and neglect. How could anyone abuse a defenseless child? Most of us can't imagine what would make an adult abuse a child.

Afghan women have seen their status rise and fall repeatedly over the past three decades, attaining a measure of equality in the early 1990s before the strictly Islamic Taliban muscled their way to power and forced women to again wear the burqa.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has issued a special pardon to two detained US journalists after former US President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to Pyongyang. Laura Ling and Euna Lee had been found guilty of entering illegally in March.

An angry Khartoum journalist who works for the UN in Sudan started a campaign against shariah law by elevating a local police matter into an international embarrassment: She's invited the world to witness her judicial flogging. Where are the feminists?

The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government. Obama's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, who helped draft the sanctions, argues for a tougher stance, declaring that genocide continues in Darfur.

Iran's hardliners took their first revenge against critics of June's presidential election by convening a mass show trial of reformists who were accused of trying to stage a revolution