Africa/International

Gold rose around 1 percent on Monday with investors chasing the precious metal as the euro weakened against the dollar on concerns over euro zone debt and Ireland's bailout package. Tensions on the Korean peninsula offered additional…

The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections. The…

Bank of America Corp said on Saturday it will not process payments intended for WikiLeaks, which has angered U.S. authorities with the mass release of U.S. diplomatic cables. The largest U.S. bank by assets joins a growing group of…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has rejected a call for UN troops to leave Ivory Coast as tensions escalate after last month's presidential election. Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo had earlier demanded that all foreign…

Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy organization who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the…

An Abu Dhabi luxury hotel that boasted an $11 million Christmas tree decorated with gold and gems admitted Sunday it may have taken the holiday spirit a bit too far. A statement from the Emirates Palace hotel said it regretted "attempts…

For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out…

Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, a Political Scientist, has called for the transformation of existing African Sub-regional groupings into pillars of an eventual continental union. "Making integration and people's solidarity part of national…

Online stores that sell fake drugs or pills without prescriptions are being targeted by the US government. It has set up an initiative that will try to shut down the web stores and educate people about the dangers of buying drugs from such…

With 13 agreements already signed, Pakistan and China were expected to ink additional economic deals worth billions more Saturday, the second day of a rare visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to this impoverished, conflict-ridden nation.…