| Latest News |
 | US bomb shipment raises Iran attack concerns
Hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
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| Nation |
 | Immigrant rights group slam Obama, Democrats
Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants and citing a record number of deportations in 2009.
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| World |
 | Somali Shabab 'ready to fight' US
Ali Mahmoud Rajhi, a spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabaab group, has told Al Jazeera that the group is not afraid of United States involvement in the battle against them.
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| Afghanistan/Pakistan War |
 | Afghanistan grants amnesty to war criminals
The Afghan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.
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| Iraq War |
 | Army and police 'meddled' in Iraq election
Independent election monitors in Iraq have raised significant concerns over the conduct and fairness of last week's national poll.
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| US Military Affairs |
 | Young war veterans returning home to unemployment
The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.
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| Palestine/Israel |
 | Israel curbs access to West Bank barrier protests
The Israeli army said on Monday it would limit access to two flashpoint Palestinian villages in a bid to stop outside sympathizers joining weekly demonstrations there against the West Bank barrier.
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| Labor |
 | Calif. teachers see red over mass pink slips
In a spring rite that has become as predictable as cherry blossoms in the nation's capital, public school employees throughout California warned of wrenching classroom cuts as local officials faced a deadline for issuing layoff notices to educators.
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| Environment |
 | UN Agency: Tiger on verge of extinction
The world has "failed miserably" at protecting tigers in the wild, bringing an animal that is a symbol for many cultures and religions to "the verge of extinction," a top official with the United Nations wildlife agency said Monday.
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| Women |
 | Amnesty report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth
The death rate of women giving birth in the US is worse than in 40 other countries, including nearly all the industrialized countries, Amnesty International said today in a report that describes the country's approach to maternity care as "disgraceful and scandalous".
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| LGBT |
 | Two Mexican women wed in Latin American first
Lol Kin Castaneda, 33, and Judith Vazquez, 45, wore matching ivory dresses as they led a multiple ceremony at the city hall in which four other gay couples, including four other lesbians, were also married.
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| Media Watch |
 | Yemen raids offices of 2 pan-Arab TV networks
Yemeni authorities stormed local offices of the two leading pan-Arab television networks and confiscated broadcasting equipment in an apparent response to their coverage of the country's south, where a protest movement is pushing to restore the region's independence.
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| Health |
 | US AIDS fund flat-lining, groups complain
The debate between those who favor investment in AIDS treatment and those who favor investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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| Culture |
 | The amazing true story of Zeitoun
Saturday afternoon and the Zeitoun household is bustling with activity, as you quickly get the impression it always is. Kathy Zeitoun, dressed in a blue silk shirt and matching hijab, is fluttering around making spiced pumpkin-flavored coffee and answering the constantly ringing phone. Noises emanating from four of her five children bubble up like broth from the back room where they are watching Kung Fu Panda on a giant flat-screen TV. Kathy seats me in the neat and orderly living room, which is dominated by cream leather sofas and a watercolor of a street scene from her husband's native Syria. Beside it is a framed 3D model of the Qur'an.
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| Technology |
 | Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI
The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
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| Analysis |
Forget Greece - Italy derivatives bomb also ticking
Financial markets are gripped by the role derivatives have played in Greece's debt crisis, but Italy also has a derivatives time bomb, and hundreds of cities are in the 24 billion euro blast zone.
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| Commentary |
Welcome to the United States of Iceland
It's time to start paying attention to the financial sinkhole that Iceland is trying to climb out of -- the view from inside of it is eerily similar to our own.
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| Obituary |
 | Lonely death of Juanita Goggins, trailblazer of US civil rights
The neighbors knew Juanita Goggins only as an elderly recluse with no friends and a family that was rarely seen.
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