The internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast rejected an African Union representative appointed to resolve the country's political crisis Saturday, saying he was too closely associated with incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to leave power.
Alassane Ouattara said that AU High Representative Jose Brito — a former foreign minister in Cape Verde — was not acceptable because he is not a former head of state and because of his personal and political ties to Gbagbo.
Wendy Williams is saying goodbye to the "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom — and to the cross-country treks she made as she juggled taping her daily talk show in New York and performing on the dance show in Los Angeles.
The TV host was dismissed Tuesday from "Dancing With the Stars" after coming into the episode in last place. She earned 15 points out of 30 the previous night for her foxtrot with professional partner Tony Dovolani.
Oil rose to 2-1/2-year highs on Monday, with Brent crude pushing above $120 a barrel on geopolitical risks to supply along with expectations of growing demand after last week's supportive U.S. economic data.
Libya's continuing conflict and unrest in Yemen could pose threats to supply in the Middle East, keeping Brent well supported, with Brent benchmark Forties cargo delays and Nigeria's election delay adding to strength.
A recent study revealed that reading about women’s success makes young men nervous—but the finding’s just the latest proof that women still face serious obstacles on the road to equality, say gender studies experts Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett.
You can’t miss Women’s History Month. Every March, posters, books, articles, films, and lectures celebrate female success. These pats on the back can only be a good thing, right?
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station, blasted off early on Tuesday from Russia's launchpad in Kazakhstan, blazing a fiery trail across the night sky.
Russian Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyayev, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan and cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko are to join three other crew members aboard the orbital station after a two-day trip from Earth aboard the cramped spacecraft, an upgraded model of a Soviet-designed standby.
The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon.
In what could be one of the biggest such breaches in U.S. history, a diverse swath of companies that did business with Epsilon stepped forward over the weekend to warn customers some of their electronic information could have been exposed.
Jerusalem city council on Monday approved the construction of 942 new homes in Gilo, a settlement neighbourhood in the city's mostly Arab eastern sector, a councillor told AFP.
Elisha Peleg, a councillor from the right-wing Likud party, confirmed that the new construction in Gilo, close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, had been approved during an afternoon session of the district planning council.
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