The Haitian government presents a new plan for the reconstruction of Haiti.

Iran criticizes the US’s involvement in Afghanistan saying that there will never be stability in Afghanistan as long as the United States has troops there.

Transonic Combustion, a new company out of California, has created a fuel injection system that can be [...]

As foreign language courses are dwindling in schools across the US, the Chinese government is sending teachers from China to schools all over the world — and paying part of their salaries, to promote the language.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic’s icy relations continue as Haitian officials rejected an offer of 800 troops from the [...]

An arm of the Federal Reserve, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told bailed-out insurance giant AIG to withhold key details from the public about overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs.

Three people, including a 14-year-old-boy, have been [...]

A Chinese company is undertaking the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan.

British hostage Peter Moore has been freed after being held captive in Iraq since May 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Wednesday.

Russia is considering a project to launch a spaceship to try to divert a large asteroid from hitting Earth after [...]

Many believe that the wealthy have a lock on US politics, and that is blocking the ability to do anything about urgent problems like health care, climate change, financial reform, and of course the low-wage, everything-to-the-top structure of jobs. Their top priority for 2010 is getting corporate money out of politics.

Congressman Dennis [...]

If the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction, thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming, a scientific analysis of millions of years of data revealed. On the same note, global temperatures could rise substantially more because of increases in carbon [...]

Computers performing surgery might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart.

MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves, a conclusion [...]