A cow in Alabama has tested positive for mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Monday, confirming the third U.S. case of the brain-wasting ailment.

When we watch a video of Bush being informed of the danger of Hurricane Katrina and recall that he claimed that there was no way he could have known of that danger, our faith in his good intentions may be shaken.

On March 12, 2006, Latino conscientious objectors and parents of fallen soldiers begin their own two-week march of nonviolent protest.

AFTER much supposedly nail-biting tension “going down to the wire”, the nuclear deal between India and the US was finally clinched during the visit of president George W Bush to India.

Leaders of the Communist Party USA, meeting here(NY), March 4-5, warned that the Bush administration, aided and abetted by the Republican-majority Congress, has plunged the nation into the “worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War.”

If we briefly review the political history of John Negroponte, we find a man who has had a career bent toward generating civilian death and widespread human rights abuses...

The government-run company, Petroecuador, said that workers had taken control of one of their installations demanding wages they say have not been paid, and better working conditions

At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed as a trailer carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine on Friday morning in Pakistan’s restive southern province of Balochistan

According to the study, released on 9 March, the most worrying trend was the large number of kidnappings of women, many of whom reported being sexually abused or tortured.

Seized by Capitol Police, [Mike]Ferner was hustled from the chamber as he called out, “These are the names of dead veterans...this government is violating international law...committing war crimes.”

The military, after Rumsfeld’s order that it win hearts and minds worldwide, has clumsily become involved in heavy-handed propaganda efforts that have been universally ridiculed.

WOMEN's Day or Working Women's Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organisation of women all over the world.