The State Department also revoked the visas and diplomatic privileges of a number of Venezuelan consular officials.

Denis McDonough, Obama's foreign policy adviser insists that the president-elect's position remains that he would only support a missile defense system if technology has proven it could work.

The call came after General Motors and Ford reported multi-billion third-quarter losses.

Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles thanked his parishioners in a statement he released a day after the election. "I am grateful to the Catholic Community of Los Angeles for your commitment to the institution of marriage

Gerald Vosen, 74, claims he did not get justice, and has made public his personal tirade on the sex abuse allegation and suspension from the holy orders through a chapter in his recently launched book, Pick a Number: Stories of

The FBI said this week that it disagrees with U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball's decision in September to allow Nichols and David Paul Hammer to make a videotaped interview regarding the case and the death of Kenneth Trentdue.

John Podesta said on Fox News Sunday that the president can use executive orders for issues important to administrations without waiting for Congress to act. He said the American people should expect Obama to use his executive orders to reverse

The reported victim, who is now in her 40s, met Fr. John Murray in 1976 when her family moved to Casper. She joined Murray in several church services and retreats for teenagers. She claimed that she was sexually abused four

A lockout by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85, representing 2,200 drivers, mechanics and clerks working for the port authority, will paralyze Pittsburgh's key public transport services. The port authority, on the other hand, said the work stoppage is a

Stu Rasmussen, who won a third term as mayor of Silverton, Oregon, will be coming back to city hall dressed as a woman with breast implants.

HIV/AIDS activists last week attacked the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for diverting US$7,29 million meant for disease interventions.

PARIS (AFP) - A strategic tack in the quarter-century-old effort to devise an AIDS vaccine, which last year became darkly clouded by problems, could be more promising than thought, according to a study published on Sunday.

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Major wealthy and emerging nations pledged Sunday "all necessary steps" to boost sagging market confidence and to give a bigger voice to developing countries in global economic affairs.

BERLIN (AFP) - German logistics giant Deutsche Post will on Monday announce thousands of job losses in the United States in the wake of heavy losses, a German newspaper reported.

KINSHASA (AFP) - Fighting between rebels and pro-government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo opened up on a new front Sunday, as Kinshasa warned it may deploy Angolan troops raising fears of igniting the Great Lakes region.

BERLIN (AFP) - A close aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame was arrested Sunday in Germany on suspicion of participating in an assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide in the east African nation.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama is looking to reverse executive orders on oil drilling and stem cell research implemented by President George W. Bush, the president-elect's transition team said Sunday.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) - Twenty people died of gas poisoning and another 22 were injured in an accident on a Russian nuclear submarine in the Sea of Japan that revived memories of the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000.

Al-Qaeda-linked extremists are planning attacks intended to cause mass casualties in the UK, a top British intelligence report has warned.The report, which has been prepared by the intelligence branch of the British Ministry of Defence, ...

The deaths of 26 victims in the latest wave of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo might constitute war crimes, a United Nations spokesman said Saturday. It is unclear who was responsible for the deaths in the village