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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Cricket Wireless's first tablet will be a seven-inch, Wi-Fi-only Android device with a Qualcomm dual-core processor. I got some time with the tablet, which is made by California firm Anydata, today.
The new tablet doesn't have a name, but it has some interesting specs. It weighs a little less than a pound and is about the same size as Samsung's Galaxy Tab. It has a broad bezel around its 1024-by-600 screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front and a 3-megapixel camera on the back. There's an HDMI out port, and the battery is a roomy 4000 mAh.
NASA said Tuesday it would release the first picture taken of Mercury's surface by the US space agency's orbiting Messenger craft.
The photo was expected to be issued Tuesday afternoon, and would be followed by several others on Wednesday in conjunction with an expert press conference to discuss the findings, NASA said.
The number of civilians, police and soldiers killed in violence in Iraq rose in March, official figures showed on Friday, just days after militants killed 58 people in the month's deadliest attack.
The Health Ministry said 136 civilians were killed in bombings and other attacks last month compared with 119 in February.
s Internet Explorer has created some ripples in the browser sector lately, which could have implications regardless of whether you are in the Microsoft Internet Explorer camp. Microsoft said last week it would .
Meanwhile, the new browser's share has surged to 3.6 percent in March, ahead of the recently released Firefox4.02 and Chrome 11.0, which have shares of 2.80 percent and 0.43 percent, respectively, according to analytics firm .
Ronnie Dunn came to Las Vegas two days early to get ready for The Academy of Country Music Awards and his first concert since the iconic duo Brooks & Dunn dissolved last September.
He wanted to get his voice acclimated to the dry desert air and obsess over the details. He says that while most of his compatriots are out partying, he's been in his room worrying.
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They're better able to extract oxygen from each breath and transport it to their muscles, just like well-trained athletes," study author Juan Santos of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina said in a statement.
The researchers testedof frogs from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama, making the creatures walk in a plastic tube that rotated like a hamster wheel. After four minutes, the researchers estimated each frog's metabolic rate to figure out the animal's aerobic fitness.
A daylong siege that began with a domestic violence call ended when a man suspected of shooting and critically wounding a police officer was found dead in his home.
Officers found the man's body in a second-floor hallway at about 7:30 p.m. Monday with a rifle nearby, nearly 18 hours after Officer Steven Jenkins was shot and the man barricaded himself inside, Deputy Los Angeles Police Chief Kirk Albanese said.
Fargo, North Dakota beat out a lot of warmer, more enticing cities for a spot on Forbes magazine's new list of best places to retire in the United States.
The list of 16 cities that seniors should consider as their second-to-last resting place, which is featured in the latest issue of the magazine, includes a surprising number of places with cold winters, including Omaha, Neb., Pittsburgh, Pa. and Indianapolis, Ind.
