No child should be sentenced to death. And no mother should go through the anguish of burying a child who has been executed... Add your name to end child executions?... Amnesty International is part of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty.

On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He was returning from a trip to Norway, where he was advocating for Palestinian human rights. Ask U.S. Pres

'I took some flesh home and called it my son.' The Guardian interviews 11 villagers This is a real way to make friends!

As Iran forges ahead with its quest for a nuclear weapons capability, it is vital for American leaders to speak out forcefully about the urgent need to deal with the looming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.A nuclear-armed Iran would constitute a threat to

Reporting from Baghdad -- Thieves killed eight security guards and made off with nearly $7 million in an overnight bank heist Tuesday that police officials say could have been the work of insurgents

Zimbabwe, a country beset by poverty, cholera and political violence, also possesses great mineral wealth, and lately there have been allegations of government involvement in the theft of mined diamonds and killings of local panners, CBC News has learned.

Politico has an extraordinary report on Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, launching a furious broadside against the British press. Here are Gibbs' sneering and condescending remarks:

Storage tankers across the globe may be brimming with oil that no one is buying because of the global economic downturn, but the traditional laws of supply and demand don't always apply to oil prices.

So much now depends on the ring. For Kyle Harper, there are few other signs remaining of the life she should have had with her fiance. For the longest time, she kept the diamond engagement ring on her finger.

"The Deltas are psychos...You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force...", a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980's. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths...