Scientists believe that Antarctica could lose more ice than Greenland within a few years. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who has been charged over the Fort Hood shootings, is paralysed from the neck down, according to his lawyer. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
WHEAT RIDGE, CO - NOVEMBER 21: A detail of a billboard lampooning President Barack Obama as a Mulsim stands over a used car lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. View Photo »
I have never used Twitter, but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access ... My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone.
Rescuers evacuate survivors after an overloaded ferry sank in bad weather on Sunday off the coast of Indonesia. Full Article at USA Today
DUBAI (Reuters) - Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unspecified number wounded as they fought to stop new cross-border raids by Yemeni rebels, the Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on its website on Sunday. Full Article at Reuters
Just as Barack Obama's election infused the floundering Democratic party with energy, it breathed new life into the bleaker precincts of the American polity. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 20: Sen. John Thune (R-SD) (L) delivers remarks during a news conference about health care reform with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) at the U.S. Capitol November 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. View Photo »
I think Obama and the PM will discuss Tibet in Washington.
Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will be debated in full by the US Senate. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Two men who had been held for seven years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of belonging to an extremist group were acquitted in an Algerian court on Sunday, state media reported. Full Article at Reuters
On turning the Standard into a free paper: "It was a difficult decision, but the right one... Perhaps it is the future for all newspapers... People were worried about [the paper] losing quality, but they realise that it hasn't." Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Our efforts in the Asia-Pacific will be rooted, in no small measure, through an enduring and revitalized alliance between the United States and Japan.
Europe has a unique opportunity to allay these fears or to confirm them, depending on the response that the European Commission will give to the ACP demands
Iraq has known many challenges, and in thepast several weeks we've seen that there are still those who would kill innocent men, women and children to deny the Iraqi people the future they deserve ... Today's step forward is another reminder that these enemies of the Iraqi people will fail.
I nearly fell off my chair, to be honest. I didn't expect Colvin to be the kind of guy who would talk in the first place ... Colvin is this very British, stiff-upper-lip, by-the-book, by-the-rules kind of guy...but then for the government to be coming out and calling him a Taliban dupe, is astonishing t...
This recession has taught us that we can’t return to a situation where America’s economic growth is fueled by consumers who take on more and more debt. In order to keep growing, we need to spend less, save more, and get our federal deficit under control
I nearly fell off my chair, to be honest. I didn't expect Colvin to be the kind of guy who would talk in the first place ... Colvin is this very British, stiff-upper-lip, by-the-book, by-the-rules kind of guy...but then for the government to be coming out and calling him a Taliban dupe, is astonishing t...
Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world - commerce that supports millions of jobs back home.
This government has been trashing this guy as if he's some sort of Taliban dupe. I think it's shameful, and the government should be hanging its head in shame as to what they've been doing to this man in the last few days ... But the underlying theme still is that this man was making the reports as earl...
It's also a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens our security, and where extremists plan attacks on America's soil ... And since this region includes some of the fastest-growing nations, there can be no solution to the challenge of climate change without the cooperation of the Asia Paci...
With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there.
If we can increase our exports to Asia-Pacific nations by just 5 percent, we can increase the number of American jobs supported by these exports by hundreds of thousands
American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban. … The American plan echoes a similar movement that unfolded ...
As we emerge from the worst recession in generations, there is nothing more important than to do everything we can to get our economy moving again and put Americans back to work, and I will go anywhere to pursue that goal
office in Ottawa ‘ scripted and fed ’ the precise wording NATO officials in Kabul used to repudiate allegations of abuse ‘at a time when it was privately and generally acknowledged in our office that the chances of good treatment at the hands of Afghan security forces were almost zero.’ ... It was not a...
I travelled to Asia to open a new era of American engagement
Pakistan's objectives in Afghanistan not necessarily in harmony with American objectives. Having said that, who am I to judge whether the Pakistan Government and the Pakistan Army is moving to remove the Afghan Taliban
The government and people of the United States join all of you in looking forward to the day all Cubans can freely express themselves in public without fear and without reprisals
How do you reconcile your contention that the public option wasn't part of the presidential campaign given that all three of the [leading Democratic] candidates had something along the lines of the public option in their white papers?' Not really, not from what I've seen. There was a little -- there was...
The United States respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China
He also has made campaign contributions to candidates in both parties, including giving to President Barack Obama’s campaign after he had contributed to the presidential campaigns of Republicans Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain, the GOP nominee who lost to Obama.
As American families prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, we received an unsettling report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that found that hunger rose significantly last year
I think Obama and the PM will discuss Tibet in Washington.
America will approach China with a focus on our interests. It's precisely for this reason that it is important to pursue pragmatic cooperation with China on issues of mutual concern, because no one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century alone, and the United States and China will both be bet...
President Obama was unable to secure any lasting agreements on climate change, free trade, revaluing the Chinese currency, or, most important, sanctions on Iran and North Korea…. The president’s failure to achieve any concrete results will impact his standing back at home and in his dealings with Congre...
America will approach China with a focus on our interests. It's precisely for this reason that it is important to pursue pragmatic cooperation with China on issues of mutual concern, because no one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century alone, and the United States and China will both be bet...