Baerbel Hacke has spent her life looking forward, but with Monday marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she’s going to spend some time looking back.

Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December.

The South African police force will be exporting their skills to Africa, and charging Norway.

A few months after Hurricane Ike hit Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, Yeshiva University student David Eckstein went to the devastated area with 32 other students to help rebuild homes.

China pledged on Friday to continue its support of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations, but a high-ranking army official said the missions will also need major reforms to meet new challenges.

China pledged on Friday to continue its support of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations, but a high-ranking army official said the missions will also need major reforms to meet new challenges. General Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of Chinese Armed Forces, said UN peacekeeping operations face difficulties in policymaking, financial guarantees and planning and management when he ...

VIP Visits • Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament: Cairo (till 21 November). • Antonio Maria Costa, UNODC Executive Director: Kenya (till 23 November).

A business started by a couple of seventh-graders has grown into a sought after DJ company run by two high school seniors, one from Natick and one from Framingham. Natick's Billy Thalheimer and Framingham's Aaron Schine got things rolling more than five years ago when they used money from their bar mitzvahs to buy speakers and microphones. Now they are making some money, and donating some of the ...

America wants to expand the war on terror to Northern Africa. It shouldn't.

Direct peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebel groups are expected to start in Doha in two weeks, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs HE Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud said yesterday.