President Bush Discusses Trade With Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez 10-25-06 04:50 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP)--President George W. Bush and the leader of the Dominican Republic agreed on Wednesday to jump-start a delayed free trade agreement to remove barriers to commerce between the...

Facing a surprisingly rough campaign, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has revived the populist rhetoric he had largely shed since taking office. Fiery speeches contrasting the lives of Brazil's poor with the wealthy elite have left many Brazilians wondering whether he would push the country to...

HAITI Rift with China puts U.N. aid & peacekeeping force at risk PORT-AU-PRINCE - Foreign diplomats say they are feverishly working behind the scenes to mend a Haitian flap with China that could jeopardize the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed here. The diplomats said China, which has veto power...

A BLACK mother with a white husband has given birth to twin girls of different colours in a million-to-one medical miracle. In what is believed to be an Australian first, mum Natasha Knight, 35, of Jamaican-English heritage, and father Michael Singerl, 34, of German heritage, conceived the girls,...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order the arrest of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people. Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told a news...

Ressources mondiales Au rythme actuel, il faudrait l'équivalent des ressources de deux planètes pour satisfaire à la demande mondiale, si l'humain ne change pas ses modes de consommation et de développement, observe le Fonds mondial pour la nature (WWF) dans son dernier rapport. L'indicateur...