Dank and mossy, the "invasion" tunnels dug by North Korea beneath its border with the South are a grim reminder the two sides remain at war, locked in a tenuous, decades-long truce watched over by soldiers, tanks and barbed wire.
Headlines warn of a "September crisis." The currency falls to a four-year low and the stock market tumbles. Rumors swirl that foreign investors will pull out their money.
People in the poor, mainly Tamil neighborhood in Colombo described it as a harrowing day.
Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, their research has zeroed in on a hardscrabble region 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia that is home to several Superfund sites and a power plant fired by waste coal.
The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best."
In the eyes of Myanmar's military rulers, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers.
The mother of six from Zimbabwe doesn't want to have to cross the border to South Africa for essentials like soap and cooking oil, so she voted for change in last month's elections.
Recent attacks and retaliation threats have the Mideast on edge about the possibility of another war between Israel and Hezbollah, even though officials on both sides say they don't expect any eruption of major fighting soon.
For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes.
Every day for the last 14 years, Sergio Burstein has thought of his wife Rita, one of 85 victims of a terrorist bombing that reduced a seven-story Jewish community center in Argentina's capital to a pile of bloody rubble.
In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to make sure that Kenya's most warmhearted export — the rose — arrives in time for Valentine's Day.
The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
The deadly Taliban attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul was barely a blip on the radar of Afghans hardened to repeated bombings, but it has rattled the nerves of expatriate Westerners.
The federal government found an elevated number of cases of a rare blood cancer in northeastern Pennsylvania but uncovered no link to any possible cause in the environment.
More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
A recall of potentially deadly pet food has dog and cat owners studying their animals for even the slightest hint of illness and swamping veterinarians nationwide with calls about symptoms both real and imagined. "It's like we're on pins and needles," said Brian Paone, a 27-year-old loan auditor in Knoxville, Tenn., who scheduled a blood test with his vet after realizing both of his cats had eaten brands on the recall list.
Fiji's military commander said Tuesday that he had seized control of the country and dismissed the elected prime minister after a weeks-long standoff between the two leaders rooted in tension between the South Pacific nation's indigenous people and its ethnic Indian minority.
What may have begun with a couple of snorts has fast become a media-driven blizzard over whether, along with German cars and French handbags, another Western import is sweeping India — cocaine.
In just eight months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done years of work on the Katrina-battered ramparts around New Orleans.
In a Frankfurt courtroom last week, authorities charged three German citizens with a plot to kill Americans, accusing them of targeting a dance club in Giessen favored by U.S. service members....
The foreign-policy challenges are coming thick and fast for America's presidential hopefuls these days - providing a sharp reminder to us all that the new man in the White House will find himself handling pressing issues in some of the world's most dangerous and unpredictable tro …
It seems a difficult process, speaking to strangers, especially when we are seeking soulmates. But wishing, hoping and dreaming about finding our ideal partner, without any form of strategy will lead nowhere. Serious people do not leave everything to chance.
Q. How do I get back that feeling of falling in love again? I would be tickled to know that old feeling of a budding relationship and the possibilities to come. I am 66 and who would want me?
Here's a list of phobias that would really suck to have. I honestly think I would shoot myself in the head if I had Eurotophobia!
I don't fear death at all. When we fear death, we spend so much time worrying and fretting about it, we might as well be dead, because we rob ourself of a life!
"I love you. It's not a weight you must carry around. I love you. It's not a box that holds you in. I love you. It's not a standard you have to bear. I love you. It's not a sacrifice I make. I love you. It's not a pedestal you are frozen upon. I love you.
Debt, unemployment and violent crime are the biggest fears for young people in the UK, a survey reveals today.
The decision, which follows a quarter percentage point cut by the Monetary Policy Committee last month, will come as a blow to homeowners struggling with higher mortgage payments and businesses dependent on consumer spending.
Flesh-eating bacteria. A drug-resistant menace, spreading silently through hospital hallways.
Fears that the United States is in a recession reverberated around the world on Monday, sending stock markets from Frankfurt to Bombay into a tailspin and puncturing the hopes of many investors that Europe and Asia will be able to sidestep an American downturn.
LONDON (Reuters) - Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.
1. Every day, try to free yourself from the desire for perfection and allow your confidence to grow.
1. Face Your Fears. Make a list of the major problems in your life, then list ways to improve or change them. They are never really as bad as you think they are. Chances are that not all of your problems can be dealt with easily or quickly because they might involve others.
The dollar remained weak against both the euro and the yen in early Tuesday trading, hit by further fears over the state of the US economy.
We talk about happiness every day of our lives in our elusive search for it. We see happiness as something external we can just pluck out of nowhere when we want it, just call it up when we want to have a better day. Moreover, happiness seems to affect everyone else except us.
Thanks to technology, things are changing around us daily, but I wonder if we yet realise the consquences for us if we do not change with them? A brief snapshot of current attitudes reflected within British society is outlined below:
Death doesn't discriminate, but at least when it comes to the deaths of strangers, neither is it immune to certain hierarchical precepts. A cursory glance at what we pay most attention to suggests that grand spectacle rules the day.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy has died in Brisbane's Mater Children's Hospital from suspected influenza as Queensland is gripped by the worst flu season in years.
The era of the 'post-homosexualist' isn't upon us
Abdominoplasty, health information, fear
Around 60 percent of businesses are shying away from deploying mobile devices primarily due to security concerns, a new survey says.