In the United States, these past few days have seen a series of high-profile outbursts, from tennis superstar Serena Williams threatening a line judge to Congressman Joe Wilson yelling at President Obama to hip-hop icon Kanye West drunkenly questioning...

The African Union on Friday announced it would impose sanctions on Guinea\’s junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, over his intention to run in upcoming presidential polls. The AU\’s Peace and Security Council, which did not elaborate...

Take a photo tour of gay Havana by clicking here. On sultry Saturday nights in Havana, thousands of young men and women — including hundreds of gay men, a few lesbians, and many, many beautiful transsexuals and drag queens — arm themselves...

A methane leak in a Polish coal mine set off an explosion Friday that killed 12 miners and left dozens injured, 15 of them in critical condition, officials said. The explosion occurred 3,450 feet (1,050 meters) underground in the mine at Ruda Slaska in...

Angry French farmers dumped millions of liters of fresh milk next to one of France\’s most famous tourist sites on Friday to denounce the slumping cost of milk and an EU plan to end production quotas, which could further drive prices down. APLI,...

Gulab Mangal, governor of Helmand, is a key British ally in tackling the drugs trade in the province, which is the opium production capital of the world. British officials credit his leadership of a poppy eradication programme with helping cut opium...

Swine flu is spreading its tentacles in India and many has been devoured by the deadly disease. I received this information in mail from one of my contacts, Shafee Ahmed and I am grateful to him for sharing this important information. The symptoms...

Image Credit Tiananmen Square, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you all are familiar with and so is with censorship in china. Freedom of expression is something that Chinese have never tasted. Once they tried to and we witnessed massacre and Tiananmen...

Racism doesn’t seem to have vanished altogether from the human minds. We have seen many times that the migrant Indians who have gone overseas in search of jobs and better opportunities or perusing further studies have faced racism scores of times...