Neither Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) nor Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) wants to blink first in the software giant’s proposed $41.7 billion takeover of the Web pioneer but as the gamesmanship drags on, archrival...

Yes # President Putin has crushed free speech, dissent is not allowed, murders of outspoken journalists go unsolved and many opposition leaders are barred from fighting election. # Russia is governed by the arbitrary laws, silencing NGOs, and...

YES # It’s a disguised US response to Chinese test last year that will further intensify the space arms race. # After China, it’s US and now most certainly Russia and UK will follow the suit, hence, it’ll be a new war sphere. NO # It...

A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after...

The present political situation and ethnic cleansing in Kenya resembles the one in Rwanda in 1994. The tribal violence is fast spreading its tentacles with the recurrent violent incidents that broke up after the disputed election. Both political rivals...

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon and a leading liberal voice, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday for the party’s presidential nomination and called the young lawmaker an inspirational uniter. “He is tough-minded but he also has an...

No phrase so commonly used about Africa can conceal quite so much. I am talking about those two very familiar words “tribal violence”. They conjure up memories of the Congo and Biafra in the 1960s, Uganda and Burundi in the decade after...

Jose Padilla, who once symbolized the Bush administration’s fight against homegrown terrorism, was sentenced to 17 years in prison Tuesday on terror support charges. He received a more lenient term than the life sentence prosecutors sought because...

Mickey Mouse, roller coasters, and cotton candy typify the average theme park. But in one Lithuanian town, those amenities are exchanged for belt whippings and some good old fashioned KGB interrogation. It’s called “Gulag tourism.”...

At first the violence seemed as spontaneous as it was shocking, with machete-wielding mobs hacking people to death and burning women and children alive in a country that was celebrated as one of Africa’s most stable. But a closer look at what has...