U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday implored Israelis and Palestinians to move beyond a diplomatic spat that has marred his trip to the region, urging the sides to waste no time in resolving their decades-old conflict despite daunting obstacles.
Biden used conciliatory language as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the area [...]

’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.
During his 17-year rule, Akhenaten sought to overturn more than a millennium of
to establish the worship of [...]

as the country emerges from international isolation, a rights group said Thursday.
The United States, France and other nations recently have boosted engagement with Syria, a country seen as key to peace in the region. Washington is hoping to draw Syria away from
.
“While Syrian officials are chatting up Western diplomats in their gilded [...]

There was nary a dry eye in the house on “The Early Show” Thursday when an AT&T customer service representative being credited with saving the life of an Illinois man surprised him by walking out onto the set as he was being interviewed.
Ron Zivin, 60, of Morton Grove, was shoveling snow for his mother [...]

ROME – A Rome high school has decided to install vending machines selling condoms for its students, sparking angry reaction from the
which claims the move will only encourage youths to have sex.
, the pope’s vicar for Rome, criticized the decision as trivializing sex.
L’Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, said Thursday [...]

SANTIAGO, Chile –
says she’s leaving office proud of what her government has accomplished and convinced the country will rise from the tragedy of the earthquake and tsunami.
, Bachelet says the most urgent disaster responses are either resolved or soon will be.
And in her farewell address Wednesday night, she said she’s “handing over [...]

E-mails turned over to the FBI and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Sen. John Ensign’s efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress and could add to his legal problems, The New York Times reported.
Ensign, R-Nev., suggested that a Las Vegas development firm hire the husband, Douglas [...]

they are scapegoats. Rabbi's were coming into the military telling the soldiers to kill indiscriminately women, children and anything that moved. They violated Geneva rules and did not provide adequate shelter or safety to the local residents.
Israel commits war crimes against its neighbors everyday. GAZA is a concentration camp run by ZionNazis. Israel stells [...]

Top European Union officials hit back on Thursday at criticism from Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, who has accused Brussels of pushing ahead with rules to regulate managers of hedge funds and other alternative investment funds that could be protectionist.
A spokesman for Michel Barnier, the new EU internal market commissioner who is responsible for financial [...]

on Thursday tightened his grip on power as one of his closest allies became prime minister and his party formed a government coalition.
, who Yanukovych defeated in a February 7 presidential election, and means the new president now controls all
's man power centres.
and is seen as a steadfast Yanukovych ally — as [...]