Ahmad Harun, Sudan's former Minister of the Interior and current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Janjawid leader Ali Kushayb, are charged with multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. Amnesty International is
We've plunged into a world food crisis-- soaring crop prices sowing inflation and squeezing households round the world, 100 million more facing starvation and food riots flaring from Egypt to Bangladesh. In Sierra Leone alone rice prices have doubled,
A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures.
Federal prosecutors Tuesday re-filed an indictment against former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, charging him with 14 counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice surrounding his testimony in the BALCO Steroid Case.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District Board voted unanimously Tuesday to impose mandatory water rationing on its 1.3 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The board took that step because the water district is facing its
Some commentators made unkind observations about the 19-year-old's body after she was pictured wearing a bikini on a Caribbean holiday last month.Her mother Sarah Ferguson, who has battled with her own weight, reacted to the criticism yesterday as she
With his latest films on the Iraq war, Cusack is standing outside Hollywood with a TV above his head broadcasting his political movies calling on the public to wake up and 'Do Something.'"
The Jefferson County SPCA makes it into the top three of a national makeover competition. Last month hundreds of pet lovers gathered to cheer on the SPCA and welcome the team from ZooToo.com to Watertown. ZooToo is holding a
TWO boys have been charged in France for the rape of a 10-year-old girl that they recorded on mobile phone video and showed to friends at their Paris area school, a judicial source says. The rape occurred after one of the boys, aged 11,
