The advances made in U.N. climate talks last year appeared at risk Thursday as a rift between rich and poor countries reopened in negotiations aimed at crafting a global pact to stop the planet from overheating. The session in Bonn was meant to build on a ...

America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons. Driving the change was the quest for a less gruesome _ even less painful ...

It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin. For the 428 members of Joplin High School's ...

This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, May 20: Battle of Front Royal, Va. The grind of war continues this week 150 years ago in the Civil War as a contingent of some 3,000 Confederate fighters overrun a 1,000-man Union force at Front Royal in ...

Josh Beckett redeemed himself less than a week after being booed off the mound, striking out a season-high nine as the Boston Red Sox shut out the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Tuesday and extended their winning streak to five. Beckett (3-4) scattered four hits ...

Jon Lester pitched his second complete game of the season and Daniel Nava and Kelly Shoppach each homered, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 6-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Monday. David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez added consecutive RBI doubles for ...

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) is organising two public engagement workshops to solicit public views on the findings of a feasibility study on the Environmentally Friendly Linkage System (EFLS) for Kowloon East.

Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being ...

Today one of the first things every newly married couple does, once the get back from their honeymoon, is to set up housekeeping. As we shall see today, some 150 years ago, setting up housekeeping was a bit different. Bethenia Owens and Lagrande Hill got ...

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Yesterday’s “inside day” indicates consolidation after having reached 102.54 (61.8% Fib of the 2012 upside). Commerzbank analysts expect the pair to breach below the support: “Rebounds while capped by the 104.625 (April ...