The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt.
Armed with a law degree from the University of East Yangon, 22-year-old Win is clear-eyed about his job prospects: Practically speaking, there are none. For him, the future lies overseas.
Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq.
A news report says North Korea has fired two mid-range missiles off it eastern coast.
Newly available documents show that a civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor brought several discrimination lawsuits in the 1980s that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well.
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Six people, including a 3-week-old baby, were killed and 30 people had to be rescued when fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in London on Friday, emergency services said.
Honduras' Supreme Court has rejected an ultimatum to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.
The head of U.S. Central Command warned Friday that the thousands of American troops surging into Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province to battle the Taliban are in for a tough fight.
A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was killed Friday when his armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb seconds after the senior commander of coalition forces in the province narrowly missed the same explosive device.
A spokesman for the NGO Action Aid said the G8 has failed to keep its financial promises to Africa. Collins Magalasi, the director of policy for Action Aid/Malawi, said that at the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, two years ago, the group promised an extra 50 billion dollars to the developing world to help fight poverty and disease, with about 30 billion of that going to Africa. He said G8 has not released the amount promised.
Magalasi also said the G8 promised to provide resources for universal access to HIV medications, with the aim of providing access to 10 million people by 2010. So far, he said only 1.2 million have access to the drugs out of the estimated five million who need it.
Critics of the G8 say an OECD study shows that seven G8 countries (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US) have increased aid to Africa by less than half of the amount needed to reach the goal set at Gleneagles. Critics say total G8 aid to Africa increased by $2.3 billion since 2004, but the promise made at Gleneagles was to increase aid by $5.4 billion
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