US President Barack Obama fired back on Thursday at critics who say he has few accomplishments of note in his nine months in office and declared he was just getting started.
India's richest man announced he will voluntarily cap his compensation at 150 million rupees ($3.3 million) this year, saying he will get by on about a third of his take-home pay from the previous year.
Five female scientists were elected laureates for the 2010 UNESCO-L'Oreal Award, the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Thursday.
Director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the United States on a 1977 sex charge, writer Robert Harris was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Activist recycles hotel soaps in US to help prevent diseases in Uganda...
The General Conference of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO) officially confirmed Bulgaria's diplomat Irina Bokova as new director-general late Thursday.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he is more worried about the increasing U.S. debt than the weakening dollar during a meeting here on Thursday.
Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, who is just 56 centimeters high, is thought to be the world's smallest living man.
The health of Thailand's king was improving but he needs time-consuming physical therapy, a palace official said on Thursday after concerns over his health sparked a second day of foreign selling in Thailand's financial markets.
Five teenagers were charged Tuesday for dousing a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle.
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