TEHRAN, May 16 (UPI) -- Iran Friday branded as "illegal" U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on Tehran for its refusal to give up its uranium enrichment program. In a letter that also went to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Iran singled out the United States and its allies for their...
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GREAT shot of Emily Deschanel from the "Green Issue" of Statement Magazine. I love the caption - considering how we all know how active Emily is in different environmental and animal rights causes. It says "I'm really not an...
The families of two al-Qaida beheading victims have won more than $400 million in their federal suit against the Syrian government and Syrian officials. Newly amended federal law allowed the families of Americans Jack L....
All together, one out of every 10 people on the planet lives in a coastal zone less than 33 feet above sea level. If higher seas and extreme weather render these areas uninhabitable, more than 630 million people could be left...
As more countries become enveloped by the financial pandemic that began in the United States, some in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia are warily watching the events with a dose of schadenfreude.