North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead
According to the White House, "President Obama spoke with [South] Korea President Lee Myung-bak to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula."
Chilling discovery: Arctic ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, has been found by scientists in deadly, bubbling plumes on the surface of the Arctic Ocean.
Tough on euros, weak on Nazis
Picking one's way through the financial gobbledygook, two key words emerged: "Austerity" was one, "discipline" the other.
Latin American labor making gains
Some 80 participants attended from the U.S., Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and Uruguay.
Russian Communists make big gains in elections
Results of Russia's Dec. 4 parliamentary elections have upended the United Russia party's dominance of the government. They foreshadow new challenges to current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Latin American, Caribbean unity group forms in Caracas
Cuban President Raul Castro told reporters that, "For the first time in history we will have an organization of Our America."
Latin Americans support UN in condemning violence against women
Every year governments and human rights groups are supposed to be campaigning for increasing resources and public awareness aimed at ending violence against women.
UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions
Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.
UN summit talks global warming
2011 is, so far, the world's tenth warmest year on record, despite the warming being masked by cooling La Nina conditions.
In Britain too, public workers under fire
Chancellor George Osborne careened ahead with disastrous economic policies as he launched a vicious new attack on public-sector workers.
