Fox News' Glenn Beck says liberal philanthropist George Soros was complicit in "sending Jews to the death camps" – even though Soros escaped the Holocaust as a young Jewish teenager.
The military government of Burma (Myanmar) released Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from seven years' detention. She is likely to remain under close watch.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Pro-democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi walked free Saturday after more than seven years under house arrest, welcomed by thousands of cheering supporters outside the decaying lakefront villa that has been her prison.
AP - Insurgents wearing suicide vests Saturday stormed a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, with six of them dying in a hail of gunfire before they could penetrate the defenses. Ten people including three children died in a separate bombing in the north.
AP - President Barack Obama, capping a far-flung trip of mixed results, said Saturday the United States is "here to stay" as a force in Asia and pivoted to Russian diplomacy as a nuclear treaty hung in the balance.
Corruption, natural disasters like an earthquake and the outbreak of a cholera epidemic leave Haiti's capital Port au Prince in destruction in the eyes fo foreigners, but for Haitians, life continues.
Myanmar released Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest today after years of confinement. Human rights activists are expressing cautious optimism that further change is possible.
A suburban Washington county official at the center of an FBI investigation into years of kickbacks says he is innocent and that the facts will prove it.
A pilot and passenger revolt over full-body scans and what some call intrusive pat downs couldn't have escalated at a worse time for the nation's air travel system.