Under pressure over a magazine report that he is having a secret affair with an actress, French President Francois Hollande conceded Tuesday he is going through "painful moments" with his companion but otherwise sidestepped specifics on his personal life ...
An Egyptian received a ballot for the constitutional referendum at a polling station in Cairo on Tuesday. Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times.
The Mexican government moved in to quell violence between vigilantes and a drug cartel in Michoacan state, but the campaign turned deadly early Tuesday with a confrontation between soldiers and civilians who witnesses say were unarmed.
ROME - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Vatican counterpart for more than 90 minutes Tuesday (Jan. 14), discussing the Syrian civil war and the negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, and hinted that President Barack Obama hopes to ...
WASHINGTON - The White House responded angrily Tuesday to comments reportedly made by Israel's defense minister, who was quoted in an Israeli newspaper describing Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to win an Israeli-Palestinian peace ...
Rebel forces loyal to former South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar recaptured the town of Malakal Tuesday, a spokesman for Machar announced to delegates at talks aimed at ending the violence in the world's newest nation.
As international donors prepare to write checks for suffering Syrians at an upcoming donor conference in Kuwait, questions surround how that aid is used and by whom.
A CHINESE doctor who abducted and sold newborn babies has been given a suspended death sentence in a case that drew widespread outrage with child trafficking a chronic problem in the country.
Beijing (CNN) -- Dennis Rodman is apologizing. Again. Last week, he said he was sorry about his bizarre, drunken outburst on CNN about an American citizen held prisoner in North Korea.
TUNIS - Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly is close to passing a new Constitution that legislators across the political spectrum, human rights organizations and constitutional experts are hailing as a triumph of consensus politics.
The violent storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar - a sacred shrine for Sikhs - was an event that shook India in 1984. Hundreds of people were killed as Indian troops tried to put down a rebellion.
The expected arrests in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann that British media are calling imminent are being "overplayed," a former police detective with extensive experience of high-profile investigations has told USA TODAY.
THROUGHOUT his life, the man who gave his name to the world's most prolific killing machine refused to accept any blame for the misery the AK47 rifle inflicted on millions of people.
A daily update on terrorism and security issues. Skip to next paragraph. Ariel Zirulnick. Middle East Editor. Ariel Zirulnick is the Monitor's Middle East editor, overseeing regional coverage both for CSMonitor.
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi has said he is ready to take any responsibility given to him by the Congress leadership, refueling speculation that he might be anointed the party's PM candidate at the AICC session in Delhi on Friday.
A car bomb has exploded in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 17 people. The Islamist group Boko Haram said it carried out the attack.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Avianca Brasil became the second Brazilian airline to cap the cost of traveling during this year's World Cup on Tuesday, putting more pressure on the country's two biggest carriers to do the same.
13 January 2014 - The speedy election of a new transition leader is crucial to the stability of the Central African Republic, a senior United Nations official said today, stressing also the importance of starting reconciliation between Christian and ...
13 January 2014 - United Nations food agencies are ramping up their relief efforts in South Sudan, warning that the fighting there threatens to increase hunger and unravel the modest gains made in food security in the two years since the country ...
13 January 2014 - The voice of Syrian women must be heard in all efforts to resolve the civil war that is tearing their country apart, a United Nations-sponsored conference declared today, stressing that women's participation is vital in shaping a ...
13 January 2014 - Efforts to attain peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at an important juncture, senior United Nations officials said today, calling on all parties in the region to fulfil their commitments to achieve ...
14 January 2014 - A new legal instrument allowing children or their representatives to file a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is set to go into effect in April, following its final required ratification, the ...
Three years ago in Haiti, as the country struggled to recover from a devastating earthquake, a river near a United Nations base was poisoned with cholera; hundreds of thousands of people have been infected.
14 January 2014 - The United Nations human rights chief today voiced her alarm at a “draconian” new law in Nigeria that further criminalizes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, organizations and activities, as well as people who ...
VIENNA -- Diplomats said Tuesday that the U.N. nuclear agency will convene a Jan. 24 meeting of the agency's leading nations on a landmark pact reached between Tehran and six world powers - an agreement described by Iran's president as representing ...
“I am here to send our strong solidarity and support to all the refugees who came from Syria, on behalf of the United Nations and the international community,” said Mr. Ban alongside the High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, and Valerie ...
13 January 2014 - Voicing concern about the deteriorating security in parts of Iraq, United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all political leaders to unite against terrorism and work together to stabilize the country and stop the ...
The new estimate came as the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported heavy fighting between pro- and anti-Government forces in Malakal, Upper Nile state, since early this morning near aUN base, with combatants using heavy machine guns and ...
14 January 2014 - The United Nations today reported a new rebel attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the region continues to suffer from deadly violence even after the defeat of a major dissident group, the M23, over a month ...
14 January 2014 - The United Nations today launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the links between organized crime and the trade in counterfeit goods, which amounts to $250 billion a year.
The United Nations General Assembly is little more than a debating society, Schwartzberg notes. The U.N. Security Council has some real leverage, but lacks the respect and credibility it would need to be an effective force for world peace, and it is ...
"In a landmark move to improve responsible business practices in the land, real estate and construction industry, the United Nations Global Compact and RICS will jointly develop a best practice toolkit for the sector," RICS said in a statement. ET ...
13 January 2014 - An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Kenyan Government to protect the rights of the Sengwer indigenous people who have lived in the Embobut Forest for centuries and are now facing eviction.
12 January 2014 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said today that as it continues to gain access to besieged areas, the number of people killed in the current round of fighting in the world's youngest country “must be much higher ...
The crisis posed by millions of refugees from Syria's civil war flooding into neighbouring countries is becoming a humanitarian and political catastrophe that can only be eased if Europe opens its doors, the UN and European commission have warned.
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has been gathering evidence of violations, with around 60 international investigators backed by some 30 South Sudanese counterparts, the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) announced.
12 January 2014 - United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos sounded the alarm today on behalf of more than 9 million desperate Syrians - particularly people trapped in areas cut off from aid by months of fighting between Government and ...
Green Tea may reduce the effectiveness of medication used to lower your blood pressure. A new study published in the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Jan. 13 found that drinking tea may actually lessen the efficacy of the drug nadolol ...
Researchers have spent 40 years trying to find out how the chemical element sodium controls the signaling of opioid receptors in the brain - a class of receptors that play an important role in pain disorders and addictions.
BOSTON - The administrator of community health care programs has been selected to lead the state's medical marijuana program. The state Department of Public Health on Monday named Karen van Unen executive director of the program.
Teen boys who view themselves as too skinny despite being a healthy weight are more likely to be depressed, according to two new studies published in Psychology of Men & Masculinity.
New Delhi: Examining an X-ray image of the knees of a woman, doctors in South Korea were left dumbfounded when they found hundreds of tiny gold acupuncture needles in the tissue.
The SAGE test for cognitive impairment is a simple 12-question assessment. (Photo: Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center). According to research published yesterday in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, a 15-minute ...
Many people typically need a cup of coffee for a caffeine kick to get through the morning, but according to a recent study published by the Nature Neuroscience journal, caffeine can also help enhance your memory.
A teenager who battled an extremely rare genetic condition that drastically accelerates the aging process has died. Sam Berns' philosophy for a happy life.
Stockholm: Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed.
We were quite impressed with Jawbone Up24 when we reviewed it. But, a few weeks later, things soured a bit when an editor developed a rather unpleasant rash from the device.
(Reuters) - Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG.O) estimated fourth-quarter revenue higher than analysts' estimates as sales of its da Vinci surgical robot rose outside the United States.
Pediatrics. Small Risk Seen With Rotavirus Vax. Published: Jan 14, 2014 | Updated: Jan 14, 2014. By Sarah Wickline , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today.
All pregnant women should get tested for gestational diabetes after 24 weeks of pregnancy, a federal panel says, to reduce the risk of dangerous complications for both mother and child, according to NPR.
Just over a third of U.S. adults ages 18 to 65 got the flu shot during the 2012-2013 flu season, according to an analysis released on Tuesday, and if that trend holds for the current flu season, many adults may be at risk.
Merck said it is recalling its combination cholesterol drug Liptruzet, which was introduced in May, because of packaging defects that could reduce effectiveness.
January 14, 2014 (CHICAGO) -- Chicago would ban e-cigarettes wherever smoking is prohibited, move them behind the counter and snuff out sales to minors, under a mayoral plan advanced Monday despite persistent aldermanic opposition.
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today broke the 'sound barrier' of human genomics by enabling the $1,000 genome. This achievement is made possible by the new HiSeq X Ten Sequencing System.
A fish with legs? It sounds preposterous, but ancient fossils unearthed in the Canadian Arctic reveal a fish that had skeletal features similar to animals with legs, researchers said Monday.
Underneath Antarctica's ancient, frozen landscape lies a hidden subglacial valley larger than the Grand Canyon. The recently discovered Antarctic trench, sculpted millions of years ago, is nearly two miles deep and plunges to more than 6,500 feet below sea ...
The Tarantula Nebula contains 800,000 stars in various stages of development. The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Program is providing the best look yet at what's going on inside.
According to a January 14 news release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a team of researchers led by Tom Mayer at the university's Energy Frontier Research Center has built a system that converts solar energy into hydrogen fuel and ...
Antarctica's mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is now very probably in a headlong, self-sustaining retreat. This is the conclusion of three teams that have modelled its behaviour.
Pic The Hubble Space Telescope has had a peek behind the clouds of frenzied star-birthing supercluster the Tarantula Nebula, the nearest observable laboratory of the kind of star-making that was common in the early Universe.
A December 11 image by NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captured the Mars Curiosity rover and the latest tracks left by the vehicle during its trek through Gale Crater.
Earth (Photo : Flickr/CC) Like Earth, the super-Earth model had oceans and bodies of land due to the shifting of tectonic plates. "Super-Earths" were just recently found to be more common in the universe than previously known, but now the exoplanets are ...
Nicknamed the "Hand of God," this object is called a pulsar wind nebula. It's powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion.
Gillian Finnerty, one of 1,058 people selected to the shortlist for the Mars One project, says going to Mars and never seeing her family again is like emigrating to Australia.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A spending bill crafted by congressional leaders would allocate $300 million to a Great Lakes cleanup that had been threatened with a massive cut during last year's budget fight, supporters said Tuesday.
According to a study published in the scientific journal PLOS One, the West African lion community has suffered a "catastrophic collapse," with only about 400 total --- 250 of which are breeding age --- left in the region.
NASA entered two custom-built robots in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC): Valkyrie and RoboSimian. While "Val" had the look of a superhero, at the end of the day, it was JPL's ape-like RoboSimian that scored high enough to make the finals.
The sun rises in Seaside Heights, N.J. behind the Jet Star Roller Coaster which has been sitting in the ocean after part of the Funtown Pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy.
The cube-shaped satellite designed by students and faculty from Peruvian university Universidad Alas Peruanas was launched on board the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket.
In Washington D.C., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will talk with Alaska Natives this morning to find out how extreme coastal erosion caused by climate change may force them to relocate from their village.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed key Bangkok intersections in anti-government protests intended to drive Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra out of office. FULL STORY | WILL MILITARY INTERVENE?
Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday continued anti-government protests in Bangkok intended to drive Thailand's Prime Minister out of office. FULL STORY | THOUSANDS PROTEST | ARE YOU THERE?
Cats and dogs in Venezuela may soon be getting a taste of the South American country's brand of socialism as the government weighs controlling pet food prices.
Investigators say beauty queen Monica Spear's camera helped them track down her killers. Seven suspects have been arrested in connection with her death.
French President Francois Hollande ducks questions about the alleged affair that sparked a media firestorm, saying personal affairs should be dealt with in private.FULL STORY | 'SCANDAL IS DISTRACTION'
Violence marked the beginning of a two-day referendum as Egyptians went to the polls Tuesday for the second time in 13 months to reshape their country's future.FULL STORY | MILITARY RULE POPULAR | ARRESTS
Violence marked the beginning of a two-day referendum as Egyptians went to the polls Tuesday for the second time in 13 months to reshape their country's future.FULL STORY | MILITARY RULE POPULAR | ARRESTS
