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Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.

A lesbian activist faces a trial for allegedly embezzling nearly $6 million from her employer, Aviva USA; her spouse, also on trial, has denied knowingly spending ill-gotten cash.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Moore named PETA's Person of the Year SHOWBIZ SIR ROGER MOORE has been honoured by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the U.K. for his campaign to ban controversial French delicacy foie gras.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest in the suffocation of 3,800 pigs at a hog operation near Hull in northwest Iowa.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he cut his hair.

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

Los Angeles, Nov.19 : US President Barack Obama may have subtly called on China to improve its human rights record and allow for greater freedom of speech during his three-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, but that did not stop China from putting a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement on trial on Thursday, a day after Obama finished ...

A health worker demonstrates the proper way to use a condom during World Population Day in the Philippines.

A second lawsuit in as many weeks has accused Florida of shortchanging the state's public schools.

President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

MEXICO CITY a " Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.A majority of the country's 32 states have now enacted anti-abortion measures in response to Mexico City's legislature ...

A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker.

Holly Hazard of the Humane Society of the United States talks about what the organization is doing to keep the wild horse population under control.

A North Carolina congressman says police got their facts wrong when they denied a messy Capitol Hill protest against corporate hog farms out of concern about spreading swine flu.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to take a pretend pig farm with real pigs to Capitol Hill to protest how the animals are treated in big corporate hog farms.

In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co.

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence.

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But Martha Beatriz Roque's condition and the extent of her fast were not clear until the 64-year-old appeared ...

Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.

Illinois has made it easier for people who have had sex reassignment surgery to change their birth certificates to reflect their new gender.