Ministers say forcing the long-term unemployed to do manual jobs will help them return to work - after the Archbishop of Canterbury leads criticism of the idea.
Burma's voters went to the polls today as opposition leaders complain of widespread electoral irregularities, including intimidation of voters by government officials.
After his party's 'shellacking' in the midterm elections, President Obama is getting lots of advice about changes he needs to make – including changes in his character as well as his style.
Republicans acknowledge that they do not have the votes to repeal President Obama’s health care overhaul, but they plan to use spending bills to block some of its provisions.
When sales of Domino’s Pizza were lagging, a government agency stepped in with advice: more cheese. This is the same government that, for health reasons, is advising less cheese.
Gandhi is revered in India, but his calls for personal austerity and nonviolence have proved antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic and military power.
AP - Hampered by heavy election losses at home, President Barack Obama promised on Sunday from Indian to make "midcourse corrections" to reinvigorate his embattled domestic agenda in the face of a testier American public and more combative Congress.
AP - A pair of American drone strikes killed 14 suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, local intelligence officials said, in the latest attacks against al-Qaida and Taliban militants seeking sanctuary in the region.
AP - The bodies of five Afghan policemen have been found in eastern Afghanistan nearly a week after they went missing after an attack by Taliban fighters on a local government headquarters, police said Sunday.
Jurors in Connecticut will resume deliberations Sunday to determine whether to sentence a man convicted of killing two sisters and their mother in a brutal 2007 home invasion to death.
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