North Korea has hit back at comments by U.S. Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton, describing her in an unusual personal attack asnot intelligent and a "funny lady". A foreign ministry spokesman quoted by the official news agencyaccused Clinton of making

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by WolframEilenberger, who teaches international studies at Indiana University inBloomington and the author of "This Is Not America - Philosophensprechen uber die Lage des Landes". He is also a correspondent for theGerman political magazine Cicero.

Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking, who became oneof Germany's highest-paid executives after turned the company around inthe 1990s, has resigned. He fell from grace after a bungled attemptedtakeover of Volkswagen which brought Porsche to the brink of bankruptcy.It's the end of

Who owns the rights to a yodel? The textlesssinging in rapidly changing pitch has been used since the Stone Age toseek help, express delight at the wonders of nature and woo milkmaids.Now a Munich court has to settle a copyright

The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. humanrights investigators for information on secret prisons and for privateinterviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center atGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes ofgreater U.S. cooperation on human

Wall Street's biggest banks are setting aside billions of dollarsmore to pay their executives and other employees just months afterthese firms were rescued with a taxpayer bailout, renewing questionsabout compensation practices in the aftermath of the financial crisis.The recent outcry

The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely withnumbers, and few number-crunchers have shaped the debate as much as theLewin Group, a consulting firm whose research has been widely cited byopponents of a public insurance option.To Rep. Eric Cantor,

The wife of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi spokeout forcefully on Thursday against the recent publication ofaccusations against her imprisoned brother, saying the accusations werefalse and amounted to a new effort by Iran'shard-line leadership to discredit the opposition

U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Osama Bin Laden's son andpotential heir in the al-Qaeda organization was killed earlier thisyear by a Predator missile strike in Pakistan.Saad Bin Laden has been portrayed as the Bin Laden son who is closestto his

A new global survey has found a vast improvement in views of theUnited States since the election of President Barack Obama. It alsofinds broad opposition to one of his key policies - sendingmore troops to Afghanistan - and confirms a

Toyota Motor Corp. reportedly has decided to cease operations at theBay Area auto assembly plant it shares with General Motors Co., thoughthe Japanese automaker said a final decision hasn't been made toshutter the last remaining car plant in California.The Kyodo

For nearly 40 years, Joseph Henry Burgess managed to elude the detectives searching for him throughout British Columbia and the American West.A reclusive and accomplished outdoorsman, Burgess is believed to have spent the past 10 to 12 years in the

Markets on Wall Street and in Europe jumped higher on Thursday, withthe Dow pushing past 9,000 for the first time since early January.Thursdayâ ™s push was fueled by some better-than-expected earnings reports, including one from the Ford Motor Company, and

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) confirmed Thursdaythat the Senate would not pass health-care reform legislation beforethe August recess.That the Senate would miss President Obama's Aug. 7 deadline had beenobvious for days, if not weeks, as the Finance

From his perch atop a flatbed truck in Hop Porter Park in the smallmountain town of Hailey, Idaho, Jeff Gunter promised captured American soldier Pfc. BoweBergdahl a much grander view upon his return.Bergdahl, whooften rode motorcycles to the top of

President Obama confronted increasing doubts about the impact ofwidespread changes to the health-care system, seeking to assuremiddle-class Americans on Wednesday that the landmark legislation heenvisions would improve their quality of life and is essential tocuring the nation's economic ills."This is

Federal agents on Thursday arrested 44 people - including three NewJersey mayors, other politicians and several rabbis - as part of amajor investigation of corruption and international money launderingschemes that included the trafficking of human kidneys between Israeland the United

This is not a news story. It is a personal request of our readers. I came across a story this afternoon that is either earth shattering or a fantasy. The story itself is linked in the second part of this

THE protection the world has been waiting for â€" a vaccination against deadly swine flu â€" is being tested on human "guinea pigs" in Australia.

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has ruled out a further bail-out for Britain's troubled banking sector, it emerged last night.