A city councilor on the island city of Victoria in British Columbia says she's found a new way to keep drunken bar patrons from becoming violent once the bars let out: lollipops.Councilor Charlayne Thornton-Joe says she and others passed them out to inebriated partygoers as they exited pubs on Canad
A massive drought has hit Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. The U.N. also officially declared today that some parts of Somalia are facing famine.
President Obama is meeting with the Dalai Lama — a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate — and China isn't happy.The Tibetan spiritual leader has been in Washington, D.C., for an 11-day Buddhist ritual.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top diplomats are gathering in Istanbul this week to talk about Libya amid fresh optimism that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may be looking for a way out.French officials have said that the Gadhafi regime is "sending messengers everywhere" to explore ways
In an interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan, says he wants to run for president of the South Asian nation again, adding that he is eligible."It's not a rumor.
Rescuers scoured the wide waters of a Volga River reservoir on Monday, searching with dimming hopes for survivors after an aged, overloaded cruise ship sank amid wind and rain.
President Obama has ordered the suspension of $800 million in aid to the Pakistani military, his chief of staff said Sunday, as part of what experts say is a tougher line with a critical U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism.Top aide William Daley described the U.S.
