Shahrzad Noorbaloochi

The National Urban League (NUL) started the second day of its four-day conference, with a talk by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates.

A Vermont judge rules against a preliminary injunction that would allow Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station to continue operating after March 2012.

When the Internet becomes a facilitator of child predation, for instance, in the all-too-familiar cases where a child molester uses the Internet to set up a meeting with his or her victim, does the jurisprudence fall with the federal government or the state?

As part of concessions made to the thousands of protesters currently camped out at Tahrir Square in Egypt’s capital Cairo yet again, the military-assigned prime minister appointed a new finance minister on Sunday.

Lightening strikes on Tuesday have left somewhere between 15 and 39 people dead in several regions of Uganda.

After a historically turbulent budget process, California was finally able to settle on a budget plan, which though not fully satisfactory for any party involved, will address some of the problems facing California’s economy.

The process of setting up MoYoTV has not been an easy one for Darko, a Ghanian woman.

The leader of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels, La Familia, was arrested on Tuesday, according to media reports.

Clashes between government and al Qaeda forces have left many dead in the city of Zinjibarv.

Libyan rebels have shut off an oil pipeline located near the capital of Tripoli.