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Obese man walks his weight (off) across U.S. Pound by pound, California man has trekked 2,300 miles so far NEW YORK - Steve Vaught is trying to shed unwanted pounds the long, slow way: step by step as he walks across the United States. Vaught, 39, began his trek last April in Oceanside...

By Robert Fisk 03/18/06 "The Independent" -- -- It is a bright winter morning and I am sipping my first coffee of the day in Los Angeles. My eye moves like a radar beam over the front page of the Los Angeles Times for the word that dominates the minds of all Middle East correspondents: Iraq. In...

Amazon forest nearly halved by 2050? Researchers say computer models show it’s likely given trends LONDON - Computer models show that about 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest will be lost by 2050 unless more is done to prevent what could become one of the world’s worst environmental crises...

LA PAZ, Bolivia - An American man and his Uruguayan girlfriend were arrested Wednesday after bombs severely damaged two low-budget hotels in Bolivia's capital, killing two people and injuring at least seven. Police initially said the blasts were "typical of terrorist crime," and President Evo...

U.N. Resolution on Human Rights Council Does Not Deserve U.S. Support Last week, U.N. General Assembly President Jan Eliasson released of the text of a resolution establishing a new Human Rights Council to replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights. U.S. Ambassador to the UN John...

By WARREN HOGE Published: March 22, 2006 UNITED NATIONS, March 21 — The United Nations special envoy to Sudan said Tuesday that violence was rising in Darfur and that lack of progress in the south was jeopardizing a peace agreement that ended a separate conflict there. The official, Jan Pronk...

WASHINGTON, March 22 — A bitterly split Supreme Court, ruling in a case that arose from a marriage gone bad, today narrowed the circumstances under which the police can enter and search a home without a warrant. In a 5-to-3 decision, the justices sided with Scott F. Randolph of Americus, Ga...

By Fareed Zakaria Wednesday, March 22, 2006; Page A21 Three years ago this week, I watched the invasion of Iraq apprehensively. I had supported military intervention to rid the country of Saddam Hussein's tyranny, but I had also been appalled by the crude and unilateral manner in which the Bush...

Where the hell did MMMike and Wednesday's Child run off too? I don't recall them signing any forms either. See what you've done Haggis? You've set a precedent, people just get up and leave with no regards to our feelings :cry:

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASA fired three microsatellites into space Wednesday to study the Earth's magnetic fields, a week after an earlier launch was scrubbed. The 55-pound ST5 satellites, which will test new technologies for future science missions, were carried aloft from...

The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, has called for the creation of a world body with representatives from the major religious groups. Rabbi Metzger was addressing the International Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace in Seville, Spain. He called for the formation of a "United Nations...

Canada Refusing to Offer Asylum to Persecuted Christians (LifeSite News, March 21, 2006) By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, March 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canadian immigration frequently fails to recognize the claim of refugee status from Egyptian Coptic Christians, reported CTV news...

Groups prepare for contested seal hunt Brigitte Bardot to lobby in Ottawa for end regulated slaughter TORONTO - Protesters, celebrities and fishermen were gearing up for Canada's hotly debated seal hunt, set to get under way later this week in the gulf off the Atlantic Ocean. Federal Fisheries...

Fear and Loathing in Siberia This week's Sino-Russia summit highlights the rise of one superpower, and decline of another. March 27, 2006 issue - Vladimir Putin, like Russia's double-headed imperial eagle, has two faces. Both have lately been very much in evidence. At a meeting of G8 energy...

Mob beheads 5 family members for ‘witchcraft’ Tea worker, his 4 children accused of spreading mysterious deadly disease GUWAHATI, India - A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in India’s remote northeast by a mob which accused them of practicing black magic, police said on...

U.K. schoolgirl loses right to wear Muslim garb Britain's highest court backs school in case likened to French headscarf row LONDON - A British girl lost a legal battle on Wednesday to be allowed to wear full Islamic dress in school in a case which has been likened to the row in France over the...

N. Korea: Pre-emptive strike not U.S. monopoly Spokesman says nation has weapons to counter American nuclear threat SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea suggested Tuesday it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States, according to the North’s official news agency. A...

Moose rides shotgun in Massachusetts car 500-pound animal crashes through windshield, ends up in passenger seat LEOMINSTER, Mass. - A 500-pound moose crashed through the windshield of a car in Leominster and ended up sitting in the passenger seat with its head sticking through the glass...

German court prescribes Viagra for stallion Potency drug worked on animal and resolved financial dispute BERLIN - A German court ordered Viagra to be given to a stallion after his new owner claimed he was impotent and refused to pay the full asking price. The buyer of the horse named Vedor...

NEW YORK - A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a merry chase through Central Park for two days before it was finally captured Wednesday morning. At one point, the searchers had it cornered near the park's ice rink, but the clever creature jumped into the water...