The U.S. government has been using its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday reaching the coast and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida -- possibly as a hurricane.
Florida Keys officials closed schools, opened shelters and urged visitors to leave as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane Sunday, but residents and some tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) - Concerns about energy security may run high elsewhere in Europe, but on the windswept Danish island of Samso the inhabitants have achieved a decade-long target of self-sufficiency in renewable power.
Paraguay's new leftist president returned Saturday to the province where he spent 11 years a bishop, and pledged to raise living standards by eradicating poverty and corruption in this South American nation.
Like millions of Zimbabweans living abroad, Leslie Maruziva follows the tortuous power-sharing talks going on at home. He wonders about leaving London and going back. But for now, he is unconvinced.
Back in their sport's heyday, professional bowlers like Dick Weber and Ray Bluth ruled America's lanes and living rooms. Calling St. Louis home was natural for their team -- the Buds, which was named for the city's iconic Budweiser beer.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Ask the man assigned to combat corruption and bureaucracy in New Orleans how the fight is going and he will tell you about his telephone problems.
A US man has been charged with rape and child abuse after allegedly keeping his wife and four children inside a filthy, roach-infested caravan for three years.
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military was so eager to get the sluggish Guantanamo war crimes trials moving that the legal adviser to the Pentagon overseer adopted a "spray and pray" approach to pursuing charges, a U.S. general testified on Wednesday.
Gas prices are continuing to fall in Massachusetts. The latest weekly survey by AAA Southern New England finds an average price of $3.78 per gallon for self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline. That's an 11 cent drop from a week ago and marks the fifth straight week that the average price has fallen.
Living near a conflict zone has taught 70-year-old Vakhtang Chkhekvadze to sense danger. But it came stealthily this time, in a bombing that caught the Georgian villager by surprise.
