Global warming does not benefit plants: new study
A study by researchers at Northern Arizona University shows that a somewhat rosy predictions about purported beneficial effects of global warming on plant life are likely not true.
Lawmakers grant Suriname president immunity for murders
Suriname parliament granted President Desi Brouterse immunity for 1982 murders, raising ire of human rights groups.
Former Guatemalan strongman, on trial, may beat genocide rap
Soldiers terrorized and murdered at record levels during his tenure.
“Third Man” Mélenchon can no longer be ignored
The radical Left Front's presidential candidate has gained in opinion polls, a result that would see him take the third spot in the first of the two round vote.
As rebels seize half of Mali, the whole Sahel region is destabilized
Tuareg separatist rebels and their shaky Islamist allies seized more than half of Mali, setting alarm bells ringing in all of West Africa and beyond.
Who gets the big pay raises, Germany’s workers or CEOs?
The squeeze on incomes for the 99% comes as the flow of euro-millions to Germany's 1% has been getting considerably more generous over the same period.
Rally counters far right in Denmark
Five thousand people rallied in support of tolerance and diversity in Aarhus, Denmark, on March 31.
Conservative robo-call scandal escalates
Evidence continues to mount that the Conservative Party of Canada, borrowing from the U.S. Republican Party, committed widespread electoral fraud to win the 2011 elections.
Pressure builds to stop execution in Iran
A last minute push by the Committee for the Defense of Iranian People's Rights to prevent the execution of Iranian teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari is in full gear today.
Spaniards in mega-strike over labor reforms
The reforms will mean the next generation of Spaniards will be completely deprived of permanent work - a throw-back to the 19th century.
