UK - The government's decision to change the rules for highly skilled immigrants is facing a challenge in the High Court.
Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant rice and tend paddies.
UK - A final attempt by MPs to force a referendum on Europe will be made tomorrow when the Bill implementing the Lisbon Treaty reaches its crucial stage in the Commons.
BEIJING - China's government announced Tuesday it will increase defense spending by 17.6 percent in 2008, marking the 20th straight year of double- digit growth in its military budget.
The credit markets are seizing up and the uncertainty recently drove up short-term interest rates for municipalities and some rock-solid institutions such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to 20%. And now even so-called prime borrowers are being sucked into defaults on their mortgages.
The turmoil in the world economy is hitting the French where it hurts this epicurean nation hardest - on their dinner tables.
NEW ORLEANS - More than 44,000 people have signed up for shares of a $4.85 billion settlement over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, a sign that the deal is on track to go forward, Merck & Co. announced Monday.
Sex workers and their supporters protested in front of City Hall in celebration of International Sex Workers' Rights Day in San Francisco, March 3, 2008.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinians say they know when an Israeli drone is in the air: Cell phones stop working, TV reception falters and they can hear a distant buzzing. They also know what's likely to come next - a devastating explosion on the ground.
Ecuador has cut diplomatic ties with Colombia in a deepening crisis over a cross-border raid by Colombian troops.
British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's plans by studying his horoscope, according to files released by the National Archives.
Israel pulled its ground troops out of northern Gaza today after an offensive against Palestinian rocket salvos that has left more than 100 people dead. But despite ordering soldiers out of the rogue territory, run by Islamist terror group Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to continue its deadly bombing raids.
VATICAN CITY - Muslim representatives and Vatican officials begin talks this week that they hope will lead to an unprecedented Catholic-Islamic meeting.
NEW YORK - The surging price of oil reached another milestone Monday, jumping to an inflation adjusted record high of $103.95.
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Western states' booming population and growing fears about climate change have governments studying construction of new dams to capture more winter rain and spring snowmelt for use in dry summer months.