If baseball is sincere about seeing the game return to the cities and if they don't want home run derbies whiter than the Republican National Convention, they are going to need to do more than offer meager urban academy programs.

John McCain has long sought to identify himself with Theodore Roosevelt. In a New York Times story last week, he repeated that identification, portraying himself as a "conservative" Republican like TR.

To say that kids are growing up faster than ever these days may be more than just cliché. Recent studies have shown that children are reaching puberty at younger and younger ages, and researchers are starting to see links between this trend and other societal ills such as ubiquitous pollution and sedentary lifestyles.

Yesterday, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked ICC judges to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with 10 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide for the violence against civilians he has helped orchestrate in Darfur.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq’s northeastern Diyala Province are still facing threats and danger when returning to their homes, a senior local official and a non-governmental organization (NGO) have said.

Scientists have long understood that human actions are the primary cause of global warming. But one of the largest single organized human activity – growing livestock for food – contributes as much as any coal burning plant or petroleum consuming vehicle to global climate change.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith, a 42-inch plasma TV set can draw more power than a large refrigerator, even if the TV is only used a few hours a day.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented the Declaration of the Fifth Petrocaribe Extraordinary Summit at the gathering’s final work session on Sunday, calling the organization an "anti-crisis and anti-hunger shield."

The AFL-CIO today announced the formation of a national Union Veterans Council that will enlist millions of veterans to improve urgent veterans’ and pocketbook issues and expose the records of candidates for office at every level on these issues.

On July 8, 2008, at approximately 2:45pm local time, heavily armed Janjaweed militia attacked a joint police and military patrol of the UN/African Union Mission in Sudan (UNAMID) in an area approximately 100 kilometers southeast of el-Fasher, near the village of Umm Hakibah (North Darfur).

Vietnam, which holds the presidency of the 15-member UN Security Council in July, voted against a draft resolution proposing sanctions on Zimbabwe.

The Left Parties have withdrawn support to the UPA Government. The UPA Government came into existence in 2004 with the support of the Left parties on the basis of its Common Minimum Program.

Filipino writer Alex Pinpin was arrested by sixty heavily armed security personnel of the Arroyo regime last April 28, 2006, together with four companions, after a meeting with coffee farmers in Tagaytay City, Philippines, on their way to a May Day Labor rally in Manila.

There's no waste in the inaugural speech Barack Obama would supposedly deliver in January 2009, should he stick to the text prepared by the experienced British journalist and historian Richard Gott published in The Guardian last July 9.

Environmentalists started to warn of the dangers of climate change 30 years or more ago. Ignoring warnings, corporations and their equally irresponsible governments continued to aggravate the crisis by a callous and reckless disregard for the predictable consequences of their activities.

While celebrating Venezuela’s Independence day on Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez expressed his desire to renew anti-drug collaboration and re-open dialogue with the United States.

Four Japanese workers filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against American Airlines on July 1 claiming that the U.S. airline company illegally dismissed them when it outsourced their jobs.

The prime minister, who heads the PM's Council on Climate Change, released the much-anticipated National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) on June 30.

PA contributing editor Wadi'h Halabi, the interviewee here, recently attended a conference titled Marxism and Scientific Sustainable Development held in Beijing, China.

This is a reflection on a review by Barbara King, a biological anthropologist at the College of William and Mary of Steven Pinker’s new book, “The Stuff of Thought” in the April 11, 2008 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.