WASHINGTON — A Senate panel investigating the causes of the
nation's financial crisis on Thursday unveiled evidence that
credit-ratings agencies knowingly gave inflated ratings to complex
deals backed by shaky U.S. mortgages in exchange for lucrative fees.

Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan announced Tuesday that he would
reevaluate his decision to install a digital sign on Binghamton City
Hall that would display the cost of American wars.

BAGHDAD - At least 60 people have been killed and scores more wounded in a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.

Two car bombs exploded at a market in Sadr City killing 39 people and injuring 56 others, whi

Using less, cutting back, saving resources, conserving energy, reducing impact—such actions, though vital responses to our planetary peril, conjure up images of a strictly proscribed and rather austere future. If a singular focus on cutting carbon dioxide is mistaken, what then, is the environmental movement to do?

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has published draft proposals for regulating whaling for the next decade.

With the death of Dr K. Balagopal at age 52 on October 8, India and in particular his home state of Andhra Pradesh, have lost an untiring worker for human rights.