Breaking News

The international community has been heavily criticized for its failure to intervene during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Recently, France has been accused of playing an active role in perpetrating the genocide. These allegations include:

A ten-year-old boy came home from Sunday school one day and told his parents what he had learned. "Our teacher told us," he said, "that Moses was a tough fighter whom God had sent to rescue the Israelites and lead them to freedom.

In contrast to the U.S. Constitution which included its Bill of Rights only as an addendum in the first ten amendments, the Texas Constitution puts the Bill of Rights at the beginning in Article I.

On May 1, 2003, 27-year-old New York Times reporter Jayson Blair resigned amidst charges that he plagiarized a story about the family of an American soldier in Iraq.

In 2020, trains will run through Poland at a speed of 160 km / h. They are to connect the 12 largest cities in Poland. Instead of motorways, after 2012 the government will start to focus on the development of railways, reports the daily "Polska" on Wednesday.

After two years of hard work compiling data from both public and private universities and university colleges, the official rating for public and private universities, SETARA (Rating System for Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia) was finally unveiled in July 2010.

Here is a world first for automotive technology: the four-fuel Fiat Siena developed under Magneti Marelli of Fiat Brazil. Are you a big fan of ethanol as fuel? The Fiat Siena's got you covered.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and the Department of the Environment joined the San Francisco taxi industry today to announce that 57 percent of the taxi fleet is comprised of hybrid or compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. There are 788 alternative fuel vehicles out of a total of 1,378 eligible vehicles. The CNG vehicles account for 131 of those and the hybrids account for 657.

Updated policy statement includes option for “compassionate use” of marijuana for children with debilitating or life-limiting diseases. In an updated policy statement and technical report, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reaffirms its opposition to legalizing marijuana, citing the potential harms to children and adolescents.

On October 24, 1945, the victors of World War II — China, the U.S.S.R., France, the United Kingdom, and the United States — ratified the UN Charter, creating the Security Council and establishing themselves as its five permanent members with the unique ability to veto resolutions.

Singapore has four official languages: Malay, Tamil, Chinese and English, reflecting our ethnic diversity and our history. Our mother tongues give us access to our diverse cultures, values and roots, while English is our working language.

Sweden's general election delivered historic, yet unclear, results. The ruling center–right alliance beat the left-of-center coalition, but failed to gain an outright majority.

Environmental democracy is a process involving citizens in environmental management processes. As such, it aims to spark a mutual commitment between citizens and their governments on sustainable resource utilization.

President Hosni Mubarak stunned the nation late last month with an announcement that he was throwing the race for the presidency wide open.

Dollar's performance since Biden's inauguration

President Evo Morales announced that his country will denounce before the International Criminal Court the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, and will sue the Israeli Prime Minister and its President Shimon Peres, whom he asked to be retired the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dramatic and horrifying though their plight may be, the boat people represent only a fraction of the world's unwanted exiles.

Get to know more about France's embassies and consulates.

Protection of the environment has now become an important and urgent issue.

Your chances of living in poverty in the UK have fallen in the last few years. But, oddly, that doesn’t mean we have more money.

Once the home of the royal family, and still officially a royal palace, the buildings that now make up the modern Houses of Parliament have developed through design, accident and attack.

A 24-hour strike by dockworkers paralyzed France's seven biggest ports on Wednesday.

For Ray Kurzweil, the process of successful invention is a dialogue, a communion between inventor and society, all in the context of perfect timing.

Even cryptocurrency is affected by the pandemic, but unlike it's harmful effect on human health, Bitcoin price is rising in the midst of the crisis.