The House passed legislation last night that would roll back tax breaks given to oil companies. The money will be re-invested in renewable energy initiatives. Democratic Leaders of the Congress vow...

Former Representative Bob Ney, Republican from Ohio, was sentenced to 2-and-a-half years in jail and ordered to pay a $6,000 fine for his part in the Jack Abramoff lobbying corruption scandal. Ney ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights last month, found Peru\'s government, under former president Alberto Fujimori, responsible for the deaths of 41 people in a jail in one incident, and t...

Catholic-run hospitals in Australia are refusing to give the morning-after pill to women who have been sexually assaulted. Catholic-controlled health organizations run more than 70 hospitals in Aus...

The Indigenous Benet communities of Uganda live in the cold forests of the 400 square mile volcanic Mt. Elgon National park, which straddles the Kenya-Uganda border, as do the Benet communities. In...