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While interviewing President Barack Obama in Dresden, Germany, in June, I reminded him that we were now in what used to be East Germany and that this year would be the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
In Katrin Roller's Berlin apartment, it's the toilet paper holder that stands out — a homemade contraption of rope and a piece of a rolling pin.
Pope Benedict XVI has announced a special meeting of bishops next year to discuss Middle East peace efforts and the role of the Catholic Church in the region.
Brian Kelly is the son of an alderman, a political science major who figured he'd go into politics after college. Unlike many top football coaches, he has no pedigree, no ties to famous coaches or programs.
Conrad Stoltz of South Africa and Melanie McQuaid of Canada have won the XTERRA Atlantic Cup annual triathlon.
Kenya and Tanzania could relocate black rhinos to neighboring countries under a plan to increase the endangered species and boost tourism in the region, wildlife officials said Monday.
Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
Poland and the Czech Republic enraged Russia by backing a U.S. plan to put missile bases in their countries.
The European Union's foreign policy chief says a new unity government of Israel's Kadima and Likud political parties would help Mideast peace talks.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a pipeline company over denial of environmental permits for a proposed natural gas pipeline through Long Island Sound.
The Associated Press has named two veteran editors to leadership positions in a new regional editing operation for the Eastern United States.
The first mosque with a minaret and a dome in Germany's formerly communist east opened on Thursday as police corralled protesters behind a roadblock three blocks away.
A U.N. nuclear conference indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview, but the Jewish state evaded a Muslim-led attempt to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Mideast.
East L.A. — birthplace of the lowrider, Los Lobos and Oscar de la Hoya — is to Mexican-Americans what Harlem is to the black community. Now it wants to become its own city. Commonly mistaken for a part of Los Angeles, East L.A. is actually an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, with more than 130,000 people — 96 percent of them Latino — packed into 7.4 square miles.
For more than six decades, the family of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly had no way of being certain he was killed when his bomber smashed into a rocky cliff in Croatia in World War II.
When Marvin Ho co-founded a Chinese language school in Taiwan in 1957, his only students were a handful of Western missionaries.
The journals of Henry David Thoreau help scientists in New England investigate global warming's effect on the timing of spring. Thoreau carefully documented the dates the blueberry bushes bloomed.
Alex Ovechkin's big week got even better Friday when the super scorer received his second straight selection to the NHL All-Star game.
Unionized ABC News staffers who have been working under an expired contract for nearly three years reached a tentative labor agreement with the Disney-owned network, the Writers Guild of America East said Thursday.
Israel's security must be safeguarded in the coming talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, GOP presidential contenders told the Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of East Timorese fled their burning capital or sought refuge in churches, embassies and the airport Sunday as gangs terrorized neighborhoods virtually at will. The United Nations evacuated hundreds of employees.
Villanova guards Randy Foye and Allan Ray, Connecticut forward Rudy Gay and Marquette forward Steve Novak were unanimous choices Monday to the all-Big East first team.
A large explosion Wednesday heavily damaged the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite religious shrines, sending protesters pouring into the streets. It was the third major attack against Shiite targets in as many days.
Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing TalibanWar on Drugs? Yeah Right.
Israel approves new homes in east JerusalemIsrael approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units in annexed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, driving another stake into troubled US efforts to restart Middle East peace talks.
Questioning Assumptions about Gender and the Legacy of the GDRAs is well known, the so-called gender contract of the GDR espoused the ideal of the working mother. Official propaganda claimed that the GDR was a fully emancipated country, in which women were an active and productive force in the public sphere.
Top Things You Think You Know About Iran That Are Not TrueThis week, the U.S., Germany, and members of the UN Security Council will meet with Iran to try to resolve outstanding issues. This article lists a number of things people tend to think they know about Iran, but for which the evidence is shaky.
Sharmine Narwani: Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves"The apple is rotten to its core. The international community must turn the cries of "shame" back on Israel and its human rights record. And the U.S.
Balance of Deterrence, or a CatastropheIran has no intention to limit or alter its nuclear program.
BB Gun Sniper Terrorizing Lower East Side Police are on the hunt for a BB-gun sniper who is terrorizing a block on the Lower East Side"
September Surprise - Iranian Nuke Facility Revelation: Countdown to War BeginsThe Iranians have been actively deceiving us all along and simply cannot be trusted - the only soluion, therefore, is to initiate a series of escalating sanctions, up to and including military action.
Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell Israel U.S. Will Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack IranThe national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, suggests that President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they should make an attempt to attack Iran's nuclear weapons sites, the U.S. Air Force will stop them.
MI-6: Saudis Will Let Israel Bomb Iran Nuclear Site -- News from Antiwar.comCiting a meeting between Britain's MI-6 chief, Sir John Scarlett and Mossad chief Meir Dagan, The Daily Express claims that Saudi Arabia is "ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran's new nuclear site.
America's exceptional allyGilder's book is a unique and necessary contribution to the current international debate about the Middle East. Rather than concentrate solely on Arab claims from Israel as most writers do, Gilder turns his attention to what the nations of the region create.
Israel has Iran in its sightsUnless Tehran responds to by late September to international proposals on its nuclear program, history strongly suggests the Israelis will act alone.
Dean and Frist Debate Health CareLARRY KING: Well, everyone talks about the weather, no one does anything about it. That's an old Mark Twain statement. Right now, that weather is affecting our signal in Vermont, because of those weather storms up along the East Coast.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran reformers slate trial 'sham'A 100 people who took part in the protests, including some big time reformist leaders, are to be put on trial by Iranian authorities. There's also allegations that confessions were coerced. This part of the article below was extremely intriguing.
How to Sell Americans on Israeli Settlements | Newsweek International | Newsweek.comFrank Luntz takes his tactics to the Zionist. Using "Words That Work" Frank Luntz who brought Bush the "Clean Skies Initiative" to "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques " now sets out to help convince Americans of the righteousness of Israel's expansionist anti-peace policies.
Biden on Iran: 'Everything Is On the Table' - George's Bottom LineGeorge Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with V.P. Joe Biden. Very interesting stuff from the vice president.
Former Gitmo detainee accused of killing 3 missionaries (OneNewsNow.com)Critic of Islam says he can't understand why President Obama and the United Nations are not expressing more outrage over the execution-style murder of three Christian missionaries in Yemen...
A Chance for Turkish-Kurdish PeaceObama could score a key foreign policy success in the Muslim world...
West Point's Class of 2009 Does Not Want End to WarWest Point graduates of 2009 are concerned that they will not be able to engage in war with Iraqis, actively advocating war over peace regardless of justification.
Israeli proposal: Make Jordan the official Palestinian homeland | csmonitor.comThe controversial idea - though not new - could still undermine Netanyahu and erode Israel's relations with moderate Arab countries.
Hamas Army Preparing for New War - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National NewsThe defacto Hamas government in Gaza is re-training its army and changing its tactics in preparation for what it believes will be another war with Israel, according to Staretegypage.com.
As Obama completes 100 days in office, we look at his time as president so farWashington: In just 100 days, US President Barack Obama has broken the American foreign policy mould, especially in affairs concerning the Middle East.
In a Landscape of Tension, Bahrain Embraces Its Jews. All 36 of Them. In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for Jewish Arabs, a tiny minority in this country as well as in places like Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
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