One of the major factors that the Pakistan Army continues to enjoy popular support in the country is that it keeps India in the center of its policies, a noted Pakistani columnist Munir Ataulluh has...

clicking here .) A need for safeguards became obvious soon after intercountry adoption became popular six decades ago, when Henry and Bertha Holt started a flow of orphans from war-torn Korea to the...

One of the major factors that the Pakistan Army continues to enjoy popular support in the country is that it keeps India in the center of its policies, a noted Pakistani columnist Munir Ataulluh has...

The Ohio River will crest at 23 feet this morning, about five feet lower than had been feared, according to a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. Bill Drzal said he expects...

City and state police said traffic is flowing normally through Pittsburgh with minimal exception this morning. The 10th Street Bypass was closed to traffic due to water encroaching from the...

There are, the Penguins figure, some features in the city's new multi-purpose arena that fans simply won't be able to miss when the building opens in a few months. The new scoreboard and video...

An infant and two adults were hurt in a three-vehicle crash this morning in Point Breeze. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the accident happened at 1:13 a.m. today at the corner of Penn Avenue...

A fire marshal has been sent to investigate a blaze that started in a tractor-trailer then spread to a house on Neville Island. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire started at 4:32 a.m....

Two people were critically injured during a police chase that began in the city and ended in Penn Hills. An Allegheny County emergency dispatch supervisor confirmed that the chase began at about...

Roving police patrols throughout the city of Pittsburgh following the St. Patrick's Day parade yielded eight arrests for drunken driving. The statistic is for the hours between 6 p.m. Saturday and 4...

1 Why is a Sierra critter named Buddy so special? A: He's a repeat offender bear who breaks into vacation homes B: Wolverine, a species thought to be gone from Sierra, reappears after 90 years C:...

All of you who oppose the health-insurance-reform bill because you don't want the government to run our health care, and you get your coverage through Medicare, the Veterans Administration, MediCal,...

The most important member of Congress this month may be a man you've never heard of: Jason Altmire, a painfully earnest former hospital executive from near Pittsburgh. Why? Because as Jason Altmire...

How unpopular is Gordon Brown? According to one Conservative member of Parliament, even "a monkey on a stick" could defeat the British prime minister in the forthcoming general election.Just one in...

There have been two features that regularly mark the history of U.S. public schools. Over the last century, our education system has been regularly captivated by a Big Idea -- a savant or an...

Cuts to ambulance service are on hold pending further study, but layoffs of child-care workers at city parks are moving forward. Library hours and service days are on the chopping block. DASH bus...

University of Colorado officials were a bit slow off the mark in beginning an independent review of problems that have emerged at their dental school. Initially, we were concerned the school wasn't...

People who blow through red lights deserve to get caught. So it makes sense for cities across Colorado to install more cameras at problem intersections to snap pictures of those breaking the law. ...

CNBC announced today at the Bahrain Grand Prix, that it will create a regional editorial hub in Bahrain to cover the Middle East. The facility is expected to be operational in the second quarter of...

An identified “transit” country for people escaping war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, Indonesia has become a focus point of the Australian government’s anti-refugee...

Witness Roy Bramwell told the re-opened inquest into Aboriginal man Mulrunji Doomadgee’s death on March 8 that police threatened to “come after him”, as they crushed his original damning...

His track record as a minister in John Howard’s conservative government certainly suggested a preference for redistributing wealth in the other direction: towards big business. When he toppled...

People could be forgiven for thinking that the only thing that the Man Who Would Be Prime Minister (a.k.a Tony Abbott) did during his sojourn to the Northern Territory was get lost for a couple of...

James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, admits he’d prefer to spend his time out of the public...

Western Australia needs a broad and inclusive mass movement to stop the Barnett government’s push to privatise public services and smash public sector workers’...

Stock markets Meanwhile, the stock markets are dizzy with the expectation of profits from the export of thermal coal from vast new Queensland mines. It is not surprising that Australia’s...

The Sandon Point community, on the New South Wales south coast, has been fighting for decades to protect the area from developers. Sandon Point is a declared Aboriginal site, significant for...

One feature of the otherwise successful Perth rally against internet censorship on March 6 was an attempt by a far-right political group to hijack the...

A Tasmanian opinion poll released on February 24 by EMRS has stunned political commentators throughout Australia, with headlines noting the surge in support for the...

They point to the leaked e-mails from a British university in December that suggested climate scientists were discussing how to avoid public-information laws. They detail recent revelations that a...

Utahns never have been big fans of national education standards. Education is locally controlled and mostly funded through local property taxes and state income tax. While the federal government...

In the end, Utah's public schools took a little hit from the just-finished legislative session. That's not good news, but give me a break. Look at what's happening elsewhere. Kansas City may have to...

We thank the Academy for holding the famous awards ceremony contemporaneously with the close of the Utah Legislature. Indeed, both activities are similar because actors and politicians excelling in...

WASHINGTON — As the war in Afghanistan intensifies — Marjah, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops — it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so....

While driving with my future wife along California's Highway 1 south of Big Sur, my new Toyota MR2 suddenly fishtailed. It shot off a cliff, then rolled 350 feet before stopping. Mary sustained a...

WASHINGTON — The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the...

According to actual scientific research by actual scientists, basketball star Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics has been known to reach out and touch four other guys within 600 milliseconds of...

Mysticism is dying, and taking true religion with it. Monasteries have dwindled. Contemplative orders have declined. Our religious leaders no longer preach the renunciation of the world; our culture...

I don't know what we've been thinking all these years. Daylight saving time is so wonderful. It's hard for me to figure out why our civilization didn't collapse from 1776 to 1918 when we didn't have...

Your editorial (March 10) was way off the mark! Law enforcement has no interest in any health or mental predispositions that could possibly be gleaned from DNA. Millions of innocent people have...

I wonder what today's (Tuesday, March 9) front-page article was supposed to accomplish? Whether the public thinks the district split was fair or not is irrelevant. Personally, I believe it ought to...

Two homes in the River Road area had flooded Saturday night in South Huntingdon and firefighters from local companies were going door-to-door to warn residents of the rising water, a Westmoreland...

Brett Satterfield, right, Web master of Rollier's Hardware's online site, sits with his brother, Derek, in a former conference room that has been turned into a packing center at the store in Mt....

NEW YORK -- A friend of Georgetown coach John Thompson III told him the other day that there's nothing better than Friday night in New York, other than Saturday night in New York. Looks like...

He grew up when the Wabash country still had a frontier ethic, came to power as America was sensing its own potential for power and became perhaps the most powerful man in William Howard Taft's...

I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s...

An opening at a hot new art gallery with men and women mingling and enjoying themselves. But in this case, part of the frisson was nerves. Would the marauding religious police see unmarried —...

a new right-wing noise machine invented by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz and the inevitable William Kristol. This gang’s rewriting of history knows few bounds. To hear them tell it, 9/11 was...