U.S. President Obama will make his first presidential visit to China on November 15th. This visit presents a critical opportunity for him to take bold and concrete action towards a just and lasting resolution for the Tibetan people.

Thank you God, this GMO company is a TRUE threat to OUR world, and needs to be closed down at ALL cost. Nature must be left alone to run its course.......

Eight Americans and six Afghan troops died Saturday after being outnumbered in an attack strikingly similar to an insurgent assault 15 months ago in which nine U.S. soldiers died in an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan.

Dam projects by neighbouring states are drastically reducing the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates and helping to turn a once-fertile plain into desert. Phil Sands and Nizar Latif report as an environmental crisis deepens

Millions of Afghan women will be denied their chance to vote in presidential elections this week because there aren't enough female officials to staff the women-only polling stations. Strict cultural norms mean women can't vote in male-run stations.

The Afghan Women Empowerment Act will protect women and girls against sexual and physical abuse, abduction, trafficking and exploitation, and give them a chance for a better life through literacy education, vocational training and health care services.

"The Cove," a documentary-thriller (more on that in a moment) about the ongoing slaughter of dolphins in a cove at Taiji, Japan, opens tonight in Los Angeles and New York and then will sweep across less stylish regions of the U.S. in August.

Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.

Paul Watson was arrested at Madiera airport as he arrived for this week's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portugal. He was released after 4 hours of questioning.

Gun battle sparked when Palestinians seen planting explosives, says official