did poorly at the box office. It failed to attract boys. This is because boys don't go to princess movies. Thus, we have to add a swashbuckling male protagonist...

judges Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres watch a performance on stage, though the real drama is at the judging table. Cowell plans to move on to another show while DeGeneres's longevity is also in...

Obama's pursuit of immigration reform this year must focus on the bipartisan idea of a national worker ID. It would do more than the jobs bill to open up work for the...

East Jerusalem The Palestinian elected leadership is weak. And even with Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this week, the renewed Middle East peace process...

Washington Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter Feb. 19 that the Navy intends to repeal the Congressional ban on female personnel on submarines. It’s about...

Iran's announcement last month that it will begin enriching uranium for use in a medical reactor sparked a rare bipartisan consensus in Washington. Politicians on both sides of the aisle treated the...

State Rep. Bill DeWeese, the former House Majority Leader, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination this morning in a private meeting with the judge presiding over the corruption...

Not long after wide receiver Limas Sweed was walking out of the Steelers offices, Antwaan Randle El was walking in, getting ready to sign a three-year contract to rejoin his former team. Randle El,...

HARRISBURG -- It's not too often that a governor faces a loud revolt by members of his own party, but Reps. David Levdansky of Forward, Greg Vitali of Delaware County and a dozen others are trying to...

The Pittsburgh Film Office celebrated a double anniversary -- 20 years and 10 Lights! Glamour! Action! Oscar parties -- at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. President Dawn Keezer...

In many states, this would not be big news. In fact, 33 states already allow wine sales in retail food stores. But in Tennessee, owners of wine and spirits stores, beverage wholesalers and some...

Indiana, Pa.-based Superior Well Services, Inc. posted a fourth quarter loss of $15.2 million, or 58 cents per diluted share, on revenues of $95.9 million, compared with year-ago profits of $11.1...

Three weeks after Saxonburg-based optical instruments maker II-VI had its unsolicited $169.4 million takeover bid for Zygo Corp. rejected by Zygo's board of directors, II-VI officers announced today...

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. this morning announced sales grew 10.7 percent in the holiday quarter, helping the Findlay retailer report a better performance than a year earlier in the depths of the...

The region's economy received a significant boost -- and vote of confidence -- with the McGuinty government's recent announcement that the province will commit $81.2 million toward the retooling of...

Party With the Presidents was the biggest of the Jewish Community Center's Big Night benefits at the JCC's Irene Kaufmann Building Saturday. Nine hundred showed up for the fourth annual event to see...

March 9, 2010 To the rest of the world, the Falklands War may have seemed like a bizarre blip on the geopolitical radar screen. But in the Falklands (known to Argentina as "Las Islas Malvinas"), the...

Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir of Iceland gets the key to the office from her predecessor Thogerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir on February 1, 2009 in Reykjavik. The 2009 Global Gender Gap report...

A supporter of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, head of the secular Iraqiya dances at an election campaign rally on March 3, 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq. The election has passed but results have...

— heck, I watched it twice, and still have to catch myself from misnaming it Crazy Horse — while the latter rode a wave of lucre so steep that it carried an actress who won a Razzie for...

*They are believed to have been Russian nationals who had been trying to claim asylum in the UK from Canada!!!The family are said to have been trying to claim asylum in the UK from Canada, which had...

My country’s economic plight has dominated headlines for months. While many commentators have focused on the underlying problems within Greece, less attention has been paid to my...

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He now lives in exile outside Paris. Global Viewpoint / Tribune Media...

Regarding the editorial “Dutch retreat” (Feb. 26): The Dutch government is right to reject continued participation in the war in Afghanistan. To wage a large-scale war in Afghanistan...

Signor Chiesa, the Deputy for Milan, has at last been able to fight one of the numerous duels which he has on hand. The encounter, which was with General Prudente, was not brought off without...

In Cameroon, some mothers "iron" their daughters' breasts to delay or prevent them from having sex. The procedure often involves grinding a very hot rock into the chest of the girl, but sometimes...

A ridge of high pressure over the Great Lakes area extending east that has brought the pleasant weather with little wind over the past few days also has created conditions that allow air pollution...

While the record-setting snowfall from February may be melting, it is not forgotten, particularly at Monday night's Jefferson Hills council meeting. Mayor Michael A. Green read proclamations...

A new direct revenue slots sharing program forged by the state Legislature earlier this year couldn't come at a better time for Washington County's most populous municipality, which has found itself...

The Seventh Annual Glass Slipper Ball hosted by Zonta Three Rivers North raised funds for scholarships for women in need at the Four Points Sheraton in Marshall on Saturday. The event featured chefs...

Wandering the exhibits proved better than the movie Saturday for Night at the Museum, the Mt. Lebanon Women's Club benefit at the Senator John Heinz History Center for Angels' Place with honorary...

It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children,...

Near mortally wounded by economic crisis, Greece is so skint that Nana Mouskouri is offering the country her pension to ease its colossal debt. A former member of the European...

The Moon Area school board Monday night approved the Parkway West Career and Technology Center budget on a 6-3 vote, despite some misgivings. The vocational-technical school is seeking a 21 percent...

The Ambridge Area school board will vote Wednesday night on a proposed Baden charter school and if the school directors listen to their administrators, the vote will be a foregone conclusion. ...

By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the...

By Pepe Escobar The United States lost the war in Vietnam - which, for the Vietnamese, is more appropriately known as the American War - on the ground. But Hollywood won the war on screen -...

By Ali Kareem and Hemin H Lihony BAGHDAD and SULAIMANIYAH - The post-election political deadlock following Iraq's parliamentary elections on Sunday could lead to security problems and deepen...

Limp arm of the body politic By Wu Zhong, China Editor HONG KONG - In the annual round of rubber-stamping the agenda of China's central government that is now taking place in Beijing, it is no...

By Stanley A Weiss MANDALAY - In September 1952, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and Chinese foreign minister Chou Enlai convened an extraordinary meeting to discuss the future of Southeast...

By Narendra K GHAZIABAD, Uttar Pradesh - His silk robes, ornate turbans and high-end imported sedans belie his status as "god-man", a Hindu ascetic who guides people in their spiritual quest....

By Peter J Brown The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the implications for US...

South Korea back on track By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery...

By Julian Delasantellis "Shall we play a game?" the Whopper, the persnickety prodigal Pentagon computer asks David (Matthew Broderick) , the teen computer hacker who just broke into the system...

These are just two cases revealed today by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) as it announced 2009 was the worst year on record for animal cruelty.The SSPCA's...

Confirmation of that comes with a new pilot scheme launched to make it easier to find broken street lights. Under the new "find and fix" scheme, roads staff are going out on the hunt for broken...

as never before.Looming cuts in the civil service and the inevitable retrenchment in the NHS will cause pain to Edinburgh's economy and serious distress to a great many people.That's even before we...

Enter our caption competition at edinburghnews.com and tell us what you think. The best of the daily winners receives a case of Corona lager.This competition is open to readers aged 18 years and...

Sidney Crosby didn't have to come up with the top 10 reasons he couldn't accept an invitation to appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last week. It took only one. "His schedule was full,"...

Milledgeville, Ga., police Chief Woodrow W. Blue Jr., right, gives an update on the sexual assault allegations involving Ben Roethlisberger as Georgia Bureau of Investigations special agent Tom Davis...