The US, UK and Germany have criticised the new six-year sentence imposed by a Russian court on former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has told his nation it must unite in the face of military aggression from the North.
Each year, UNICEF Germany grants the “UNICEF Photo of the Year Award” to photos and photo series that best depict the personality and living conditions of children all around the world in an outstanding manner.
Texas is still a red state, but there is some evidence that it's trending purple. Election results confirm that Dallas County and Harris County, which includes Houston, are home to more Democrats than they used to be. There is still a lot of red in the panhandle and western Texas, to be sure.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has hailed his eight-year record as leader of South America's biggest country, days before he steps down.
New rules have taken effect in China that restrict car purchases in an effort to combat serious traffic problems in the capital, Beijing.
(CNN) -- Nobody likes paying taxes, but American culture seems to increasingly treat taxation as a something close to a crime committed by the ruling class. "Americans hate everything about taxation with a passion," writes historian Robin Einhorn. "No campaign promise works better than the promise to cut taxes."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will move from a prison cell in Wandsworth to a country retreat in Norfolk after being released from custody.
LONDON – The number of people infected with tuberculosis has jumped by 50 percent in London in the last decade, making it the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, a new report says.
Washington (CNN) -- House Democrats vented their frustrations with President Barack Obama's tax proposal at a closed-door meeting Tuesday night, with rank-and-file members slamming the White House for leaving House Democrats out of final negotiations, and agreeing too quickly to a GOP proposal on the estate tax.