The only two baby mountain gorillas in captivity -- orphaned two years ago after their mothers were slain in massacres -- will soon be getting a lush, new playpen, Congo's wildlife authority announced.
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation,...
The attorney general's Senate testimony this week did nothing to reassure the families of 9/11's victims. By DAVID BEAMER On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his...
Argentina's Congress Approves Forced Extraction Of DNA From Suspected Dirty War Orphans (AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of...
Adweek Ex-Ad Exec Arnold Rosoff Dies Adweek Arnold Rosoff, one of the pillars of the ad business in New England, a stalwart champion of social justice and the man who in 1946 founded the shop that ... and more »
By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) - The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection...
Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend...
LAYTON — At times when he was running for his life, only a few steps ahead of the Soviet KGB, Mike Ramsdell always considered himself a "farm boy from Bear River City, Utah." Ramsdell could acquire foreign languages easily and...
By ANN TAN WE are the Dead. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved, and were loved, and now we lie in the Flanders fields... There was a moment of silence when chaplain D. Griffiths read out the poem...
Ask Jim Stitt to describe one of his trees and he won't say more than a few words before his hands start to explain for him. "As the branches are careening down," he says, his eyes following his arm arcing in front of him,...