TEGUCIGALPA - Negotiators pressed ahead with talks Friday on ending a political crisis set off by the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, even as a succession of deadlines came and went.
A...
DUBLIN - Ireland completed its ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty on Thursday when President Mary McAleese announced she had signed a special legal instrument following a Yes vote in this month's...
WASHINGTON- Smoking bans in offices, restaurants, airports and other public places reduce the risk of heart attacks and heart disease, a federally-commissioned panel of US experts found Thursday....
NEW ORLEANS - US President Barack Obama got a blunt question from an unexpected quarter Thursday -- a daring nine-year-old boy who asked "why do people hate you?"
Obama, caught up in a divisive...
FORT COLLINS, Jeanie Stokes - A six-year-old Colorado boy feared to have floated to his death on a home-made helium balloon was found alive Thursday, ending a nerve-shredding drama that captivated...
WASHINGTON- Chocolate activates a part of the brain that blunts pain and makes it difficult to stop eating, a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Neuroscience has found.
But drinking water...
RIO DE JANEIRO- A film studio and Rio de Janeiro city and state authorities have offered 17 million dollars to US film director Woody Allen to work his celluloid magic in the fabled Marvelous City,...
WASHINGTON - Bloomberg announced Tuesday it has agreed to buy BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill Cos. in a move that allows the news agency to expand beyond its core business of supplying...
PARIS, Carole Landry - The imminent promotion of President Nicolas Sarkozy's son to manage France's wealthiest business district drew howls of protest and derision Monday over the 23-year-old's...
ABUJA- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua called for a regional summit in Abuja on Saturday to discuss Guinea and possible sanctions after a bloody crackdown there, a top official said Monday....