Has the U.S. Supreme Court suddenly decided to embrace justice? There had been no "moral values" preachings from the White House pulpit before this ruling against the execution of children. Fox News hadn't put their screamers on the case. So what happened?...

South Africa saw a 57-percent jump in reported deaths between 1997 and 2003, with AIDS-related deaths contributing hugely to the increase, according to a recently issued report by a group called Statistics SA. One in five adults in the country is living with HIV/AIDS....

The duplicity of Washington's position on nuclear weapons was recently underscored by a report that, a decade and a half after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. still deploys approximately 480 nuclear warheads in Europe....

JP Morgan Chase, the second-biggest bank in the U.S., put it ever so delicately: "[The bank] had predecessors that had customers that appear to have used enslaved individuals." ...