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Swiss central bank imposes negative interest rates
Following the fallout of the slide in the Russian ruble, Switzerland sought Thursday to prevent the Swiss franc from breaching ...IMF withholds bailout money for Cyprus
The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it won\'t release $108 million (88 million euros) in rescue money for bailed-out Cyprus ...U.S., Cuba restore ties after 50 years
The United States and Cuba agreed on Wednesday to restore diplomatic ties that Washington severed more than 50 years ago, ...Palestinians present UN resolution on final peace deal
The Palestinians on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but ...Pakistan mourns after Taliban Peshawar school massacre
It began like any other morning in Pakistan\'s Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Students pored over ...Palestinians to push UN vote despite US veto warning
The Palestinians will press ahead Wednesday with a UN bid to boost their hopes of statehood, despite a warning that the US ...US soldier jailed after joining French Foreign Legion
An American soldier who abandoned his unit to join the French Foreign Legion has been convicted of desertion and sentenced by the ...The Case Against Re-Banning Torture Yet Again
Senator Ron Wyden has a petition up at MoveOn.org that ...Taliban storms Pakistan school, killing scores of children
At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in ...Two car bombs explode in central Yemen killing 25
At least 25 people died when two car bombs exploded in Radaa city in Yemen\'s central province of al-Bayda, local ...