World Dec 28 Reform Effort Pushed as Part of U.N. Budget Deal Ending weeks of turmoil, the U.N. General Assembly late last week adopted its 2006-7 budget but with a spending cap aimed at pressuring countries into agreeing to key reforms within six months.
Politics Dec 28 Former Enron Executive Pleads Guilty, to Cooperate with Prosecutors Richard Causey, Enron Corp.'s former executive vice president and chief accounting officer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud in connection to the filing of the company's 2001 quarterly report.
Politics Dec 27 10,000 Protest in Baghdad as Leaders Negotiate a Coalition More than 10,000 Sunni Arabs and secular Shiites marched in Baghdad Tuesday to protest the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.
World Dec 25 Governments Struggle to Create Tsunami Alert System A year after the catastrophic Asian tsunami, governments are still struggling to implement a regional tsunami warning system that could help prevent such massive loss of life in the future.
Politics Dec 23 Alito Supported Wiretaps Without Warrants As a Justice Department lawyer in the 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito argued that executive branch officials should not be held liable if they ordered wiretaps without obtaining warrants, according to documents.
Politics Dec 21 Senate Republicans Win Budget Battle, Lose ANWR Bid The Bush administration and GOP allies in the Senate on Wednesday successfully passed a bill they said would trim federal deficits by $39.7 billion over five years.
Politics Dec 20 Sunnis Challenge Early Election Results in Iraq As results begin to take shape from Iraq's Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, Sunni Arabs are calling the voting fraudulent, especially in the Baghdad province.
Nation Dec 20 New York Transit System Grinds to a Halt New York City's transit union workers went on strike in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, causing thousands of New Yorkers to find a different means of getting to work.
World Dec 19 Nations Agree to Phase Out Farm Export Subsidies Trade ministers from 149 nations concluded talks in Hong Kong with a deal on eliminating farm export subsidies by 2013 but without agreements on reducing trade barriers for agricultural and industrial products.
Science Dec 19 Researchers Pinpoint Human Skin Color Gene Scientists have detected a genetic mutation that they say largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago.