In the Year of the Dragon, China expects a 5 percent increase in births despite the country's strict one-child policy. This brings into question whether the one-child policy is still an effective population control tool. Or is the policy actually damaging Chinese society and economy?
Libya urged Niger on Saturday to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi, saying his call for Libyans to prepare for a coming uprising threatened bilateral ties. In response, Niger pledged to tighten house surveillance of Saadi, but reiterated he could not be handed over to a state where he could face execution.
Syrian forces unleashed new tank and rocket bombardments on opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Saturday while diplomats sought United Nations backing for an Arab plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the Middle Eastern country.
Violence flared across Syria, including bomb attacks that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo, while at the United Nations diplomats said a new effort was afoot to gain backing for an Arab peace plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the country.
The site went offline since Friday night even as Anonymous posted messages on its Twitter page claiming that the URL was hacked.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the UK and Argentina to “avoid an escalation” in Falklands, and noted his “concern about the increasingly strong exchanges” between the two countries.
Bipartisan group of senators have introduced a resolution asking the Obama administration to rev up its work with the international community to address the crisis in Syria.
The Operation Black March boycott, led by Anonymous, aims to protest ACTA and SOPA by asking opponents of the treaty not to purchase media for the month of March.
A Russian officer was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday for giving missile secrets to the CIA.
The comments were apparently the first public statement that the Saudi monarch has made regarding Syria.
Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the centre of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the center of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule
The street value of the haul was more than $4 billion.
Russia faced a barrage of condemnations after it joined China over the weekend in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step aside, but Russia has stood resolutely behind its decision. Why?
U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.
Armoured reinforcements poured into Homs as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the rebellious Syrian city for a fourth day, opposition sources said Thursday, worsening the dire humanitarian situation and prompting a new diplomatic push from Turkey.
Hotel staff in many New York City establishments will get panic buttons within the next year to offer better protections in the wake a hotel maid’s charge that she was sexually assaulted by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced her intentions to bring the Falklands issue to the U.N. on Tuesday.
The Damascus strongman still has at least two powerful allies apparently on his side – Russia and China
The Syrian opposition, after nearly a year of relentless bloodshed, said it’s too late for any negotiations.
Jamaica is still plagued by one of the highest rates of gun violence in the world
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean archipelago, handed over the post to Vice-President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik.
