By Jessica Golloher from Moscow In Russia, there is an official list of jobs that are considered too dangerous and physically demanding for women. One young woman, Anna Klevets, recently tried to challenge the list. She filed a dis...
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MOSCOW, March 16, 2009 : Researchers at Bonn University's Egyptian Museum aim to recreate a perfume used by Egypt's best-known female pharaoh, by analyzing residue from a well-preserved flacon, the museum said in a statement. The 3,500-year-old fi...
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A man who auctioned his life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price: almost $384,000. Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introduc...
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By Fred W. Baker III AFPS Posted on :Tuesday: Jun 24, 2008 at 2:51 AM WASHINGTON : Violence in Iraq dropped in May to its lowest level in four years, according to a Defense Department report released to Congress on Monday. The quarter...
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After decades of denials, the Chinese have acknowledged burying an American prisoner of war in China, telling the U.S. that a teenage soldier captured in the Korean War died a week after he "became mentally ill," according to documents provided to Th...
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Ministers have pledged to appeal against a court ruling preventing the deportation of radical preacher Abu Qatada. Qatada, once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", left Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire at around 8.20pm o...
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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the deaths of four UK soldiers in Afghanistan - including the first British woman to die in active service since the conflict began. Next of kin have been informed. The deaths take the number of British ser...
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Security agents hoping to prevent displays of defiance jogged alongside Olympic torchbearers Tuesday as the flame began its journey through China's restive West, drawing cheers from carefully controlled crowds. Police and troops closely watched th...
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South Korea's prime minister and the entire Cabinet offered their resignations to President Lee Myung-bak following widespread protests over the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports. Spokesman Lee Dong-kwan did not say whether the president wou...
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By: James Rowley Self-proclaimed al-Qaeda commander Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appearing at a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he would welcome the martyrdom of execution for masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that kil...
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A prominent fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of fraud, money laundering and bribery Wednesday after a trial that exposed a corrupt culture of payoffs and campaign finance abuses plaguing Illinois politics. An...
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A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed in the Red Planet's northern polar region on Sunday, where it will begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life. Less t...
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A 6-year-old son of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs did not suffer physical or sexual abuse while living with his mother at the group's Texas ranch, a child welfare case worker testified Monday. Child Protective Services case worker Joni Mansk...
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June 02, 2007: The CPI(M) on Saturday asked the Centre and the Rajasthan government to take steps to restore peace in the state while blaming the ''opportunist policies'' of the BJP for the present tension. The party also appealed to the leader...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 (Bhopal) Noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Saturday rebuffed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's remarks that his family was instrumental in creation of her nation. ''Nobody can decide to divide a country. It was a res...
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