
We’re at a soup kitchen in a shabby back street in Paris, next to the canal Saint Martin, near the Jaurès metro stop. Hundreds of homeless people are queuing up for some hot food and a coffee. Most of them are from Asia; many from Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

In the last decade of the 20th century, the Turkish lira fell in value 1,000 times against the U.S. dollar, meaning that tourists returning to that country after several years found that any old money they still possessed since their last visit had become almost worthless.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

On Sunday, 49 decapitated bodies were found on a major highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, which is about 80 miles southwest of the U.S. border.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

The relationship between France and Germany is the barometer of the political health of Europe.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

When 18-year-old Mumtaz walks into a room the first thing you notice about her is the patchwork of painful puffy red scars that stretch across her face.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

Mississippi’s Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state attorney general’s attempt that it reconsider its assent to controversial pardons — several of them for convicted killers — issued earlier this year by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
Crime |
Read More »

Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken. The seven-year-old is now at the center of an international custody dispute with two identities and two sets of parents who claim her as their own.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

In the slums of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, visiting the bathroom usually means one of two things; a trip to the local pit latrine or the ‘flying toilet’.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
Crime |
Read More »

Alabama’s governor on Thursday called in lawmakers for a special session in part to further explore changes to the state’s anti-illegal immigration law, considered the country’s toughest.
May 18, 2012 | Posted in
Crime |
Read More »

Experts on foreign policy pose three caveats on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

About three-fourths of the nation — from the Southwest to the Mid-Atlantic — faces elevated odds of above-average temperatures this summer.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

As her tenure winds down, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s diplomatic approach is seen as innovative, indefatigable but ultimately indentured.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

Joe Ricketts, the billionaire behind a super PAC opposed to President Obama, says he’s concerned with the ballooning federal deficit.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

House panel calls for significant cuts to the Pentagon’s propaganda spending and more oversight.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

Officials have ordered evacuations for residents of 65 homes in Colorado, while more than 300 people have evacuated due to an Ariz. fire.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

The Obama administration called Thursday for hefty tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels and cells..
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

Two Pakistani Air Force planes collided in midair Thursday, killing the pilots and injuring people on the ground, according to local police.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

France’s new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people’s lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

Mexican authorities are asking for DNA samples from families of missing persons nationwide in their efforts to identify 49 decapitated bodies, an official said Wednesday.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
World News |
Read More »

Jon Huntsman’s daughter, Abby, tweets a suggestion: How about her dad running for mayor of New York City?
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

Prosecutors used John Edwards’ own political rhetoric about the two Americas in their closing arguments.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »

A Sanford officer’s report says George Zimmerman’s encounter with Trayvon Martin was “avoidable” if he had stayed in car and awaited police.
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
Top Headlines |
Read More »