Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

A group of Belgian citizens gathered in front of the US embassy in Brussels to ask the newly inaugurated American President Barack Obama, to release the five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the US.

China's State Council, or Cabinet, passed a long awaited medical reform plan which promised to spend 850 billion yuan (123 billion US dollars) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country's 1.3 billion population.

One of the chief concerns for displaced Gazans and aid agencies is to find adequate shelter in temperatures that can drop to less than 7-8 degrees Centigrade at night.

In what will be one of the most remembered inaugural speeches in US history President Barack Obama urged the unity of all the people to restore an image of America as democratic and to overcome the troubles that face it. Mixing jeremiad with poetry, sermon with history lesson, he emphasized a new philosophy for measuring prosperity and outlined a new foreign policy.

I thought I should say a very long overdue goodbye, Mr. Bush, although we will be living with the consequences of your administration for a long time. I saw your "farewell address" and you ended I thought as you began — something of a befuddled fool.

People across the globe believe Barack Obama will improve US relations with the rest of the world, a new survey for the BBC World Service released this week showed.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Barack Obama has the opportunity to look at Latin America from a democratic perspective, following his inauguration as US President on Tuesday.

It’s estimated 86,000 workers got fired trying to exercise their legal right to organize a union during the Bush years and signs are Corporate American will fight to keep things that way.

OAKLAND, CA (1/10/09) -- Twelve unions met in Washington DC last week, and announced they're considering rejoining the two labor federations, the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Change to Win (CTW), that split apart five years ago.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.

Aspirations by Iran for a nuclear energy industry are not new. US opposition to it is, however, according to new declassified document published this week by the National Security Archive.

Ben Bernanke, chair of the Federal Reserve, has "warned" Congress that "fiscal stimulus packages," meaning social spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power, will not be a long-term solution to the "credit crisis."

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 15 (acn) Since 1993 Cuba has remained free of measles, a disease that has yet to be eradicated in Europe due to currently insufficient rates of vaccination.

As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently "extract" Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable of disrupting, if not overshadowing the "friendly" and "moderate" political regime in Beirut.

A rally protesting the killing of Oscar Grant, a young African American supermarket worker, by an officer of the Bay Area Rapid Transit police.

Featured in a revealing interview in the Winter 2009 edition of Equality magazine, a publication of the Human Rights Campaign, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) discussed his new position as vice chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and his caucus's agenda for the upcoming session.

The latest figures indicate that the Canadian economy is becoming more deeply entrenched in recession, with no recovery in sight. Another 34,400 jobs were lost in December, on top of 70,600 in November, for a two-month total of 105,000.

It’s difficult to predict which areas of the U.S. will suffer the most from global warming, but it’s safe to say that no regions will be unaffected. Scientists already point to increased severity of hurricanes on the East Coast, major Midwest floods, and shrinking glaciers in the West as proof of global warming’s onset.

Nine Israeli human rights and aid organizations have released their findings on the situation in Gaza and called on the Israeli government to take urgent action to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation there.