The US Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to California's gay marriage ban, ruling that supporters of the ban did not have the legal standing, or right, to appeal a lower court's decision striking down Proposition 8.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP):Wearing pink tennis shoes to prepare for nearly 13 consecutive hours of standing, a Democratic Texas state senator on yesterday began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort that would impose stringent new abortion...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama is making his case for an immigration overhaul and for avoiding a big increase in student loan interest rates as he meets with the bipartisan leadership of Congress...
KENTUCKY, FORT CAMPBELL (AP): Fort Campbell and Fort Knox, both in Kentucky, are each going to lose an active duty combat brigade under a restructuring plan announced by the United States (US) Army. The brigades that will be eliminated by 2017....
Former South African President Nelson Mandela remains in a serious but stable condition after being hospitalised on June 8 for a recurring lung infection.
The high court ruled that Congress must update its formula for deciding which states and local governments still need federal approval before changing voting laws.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and will not be extradited to the United States.
It is reported that in April, Berry shouted and cursed at photographers at Los Angeles International Airport, telling them to get away from her young daughter, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 76, was convicted in a Milan court today, and sentenced to seven years in prison, and barred from public office for life.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP):The most liberal national abortion law in South America was under attack on yesterday as Uruguayans were deciding whether to hold a referendum on repealing it.Independent groups as well as some members of Uruguay's right-wing...
SAO PAULO (AP): A quarter-million Brazilians took to the streets in the latest wave of sometimes-violent protests that are increasingly focusing on corruption and reforming a government system in which people have lost faith....
WASHINGTON (AP):The former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed a highly classified surveillance programme has had his US passport revoked, an official said yesterday.Edward Snowden's passport was annulled before he left Hong Kong for...
Admitted leaker Edward Snowden took flight Sunday in evasion of U.S. authorities, seeking asylum in Ecuador and leaving the Obama administration scrambling to determine its next step.
President Jacob Zuma said in a statement that he had visited the 94-year-old former leader at a hospital Sunday and was informed by the medical team that Mandela's condition had become critical.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president after the end of apartheid in 1994, was hospitalized on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.
A former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs was believed to have landed in Russia on Sunday.
A quarter-million Brazilians took to the streets in the latest a wave of sometimes-violent protests that are increasingly focusing on corruption and reforming the government system.
MEXICO CITY (AP):The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States (US) and the State Department closely monitored Mexican author Carlos Fuentes for more than two decades because he was considered a communist and a sympathiser of Cuba's...
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States (US) Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property in the ongoing surveillance case.
SAN DIEGO (AP):A federal judge last Friday sentenced two former Border Patrol agents to at least 30 years in prison for running a ring that smuggled more than 500 illegal immigrants into the United States.
JOHANNESBURG (AP):The South African government has moved to allay fears that former president Nelson Mandela was harmed when an ambulance carrying the 94-year-old to a hospital two weeks ago had engine trouble.
