Late Thursday, interim Honduras leader Roberto Micheletti announced he would accept a deal that would restore ousted President Zelaya and respect Nov. 29 election date.
Chinese investments and influence in Africa increase as the government ties state aid to investment projects and is willing to sell arms to countries like Zimbabwe. Some African leaders credit China for being willing to invest where the West will not out of human rights concerns.
Coyote populations are growing, in the wild as well as in populated areas where they hunt for pets and garbage. But attacks are rare and, statistically speaking, coyotes are far less of a threat than pit bulls.
Abdullah Abdullah announced that he would not participate in the Nov. 7 Afghan runoff election, effectively handing a new term to President Hamid Karzai.
The end of Dede Scozzafava’s candidacy for an upstate New York Congressional seat emboldened the right at a time when the party is debating how to rebuild.
As women who suffer from post- traumatic stress disorder return to a society unfamiliar with their wartime roles, they often choose isolation over embarrassment.
AP - President Barack Obama is still weeks away from deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said Sunday amid pressure from lawmakers to settle on a war strategy despite muddled politics and concerns of corruption in Kabul.
AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too high, but that the priorities now are economic growth and job creation.
AP - President Barack Obama is telling voters in New Jersey that challenging economic times are worrying parents who want to send their kids to college and plan for their own retirement.
Authorities have ended a search for nine people missing off southern California since Thursday when a Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter collided.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah is out of the runoff election. He told CNN's Christiane Amanpour the vote would be as fraudulent as the first round.
A militant Islamist group associated with al Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, far from its normal base of operations in Somalia.