WASHINGTON - The head of the US Congress' Asian American group on Friday proposed offering tax credits to firms that provide English lessons, saying it could help transform the immigration debate....

LOS ANGELES - The University of California said Thursday it would bestow honorary degrees on hundreds of former students of Japanese descent who were shipped off to internment camps during World War...

NEW YORK - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, sentenced in June to 150 years in prison for running the biggest fraud in Wall Street history, was transferred Tuesday to a medium-security facility....

TETOVO, Jasmina Mironski - Open displays of faith among Macedonia's rival Christian and Muslim youths are stoking religious tensions that have smouldered since the fall of communist Yugoslavia....

A family in Saudi Arabia has taken a genie to court, alleging theft and harassment, according to local media. The lawsuit filed in Shariah court accuses the genie of leaving them threatening...

TAIPEI, Amber Wang - Sex workers in Taiwan have cautiously welcomed a government plan to legalise prostitution, but the scheme is being opposed by an alliance of women's groups who fear it will breed...

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2009 (AFP) - President Barack Obama called Sunday for strengthening higher education so that the United States could lead the world in college degrees in a decade. "In an...

BANJA LUKA- Several thousand Bosnian Serbs gathered in eastern Bosnia Sunday to remember loved ones killed during the 1990s war, a day after Muslims marked the 14th anniversary of the Srebrenica...

MADRID- A Basque bishop on Saturday criticised the Roman Catholic Church's silence over the killing of 14 priests during Spain's 1936-39 civil war at the hands of General Francisco Franco's...