WASHINGTON, D.C. - The villagers of war-ravaged Darfur face a famine in the coming year if the violence that has swept through this part of western Sudan is not stopped, an expert on the region said at a talk Feb. 25 at the Brookings Institute here.
WASHINGTON Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, cautiously endorsed a shift in the tax system Thursday from one that primarily taxes what people earn to one that taxes what they spend.
It's not the size of the brain that matters. It's the way it's arranged. That's the conclusion of researchers studying the skull of a tiny, Hobbit-like human ancestor who lived on a remote Indonesian island 18,000 years ago.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Car bombs killed six policemen and wounded 15 in new attacks on Iraq's security services Thursday as political factions wrangled over putting together a government.
The Shiite Muslim-dominated United Iraqi Alliance and a Kurdish coalition, which emerged from the Jan.
By Robert Jablon
LOS ANGELES Robert Blake's lawyer said Thursday it was ridiculous to think the actor would have killed his wife in his own neighborhood while she waited in a car parked under a streetlight.
By Linda Deutsch
SANTA MARIA A young woman speaking in a flat, unemotional voice told jurors Thursday a story of bizarre events in Michael Jackson's secret world that form the heart of the molestation case against him.