Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.

Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by...

is alive and well in contemporary Cajamarca, in the form of the US-based Newmont mining corporation, an outfit with a slick PR machine and a very dirty environmental and human rights track record. ...

United States' oil giant ExxonMobil had the largest profits of the "big five" oil companies last year, raking in US$41.1 billion. This is a 35% jump from the year before. Here are a...

A prison in Western Sahara. Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Sahrawi people continue to demand independence after...

The Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition...

Anti-austerity protest in Barcelona, January 28. A vast icy pool of Siberian air, the coldest in 50 years, settled over all Europe in late January. At least 150 people without shelter were killed. ...

By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages, $27.95 (pb) The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler who took a bus ride across...

A 48-hour strike on October 19-20 was the biggest since the end of the Greek dictatorship in 1974. Over October 19-20 there was a general strike in Greece. The overwhelming majority of Greek workers...

the UN said the violence has made further casualty counts impossible. Most of the deaths have been civilians killed by the regime, but increasing numbers of defectors from the military, who are...

– Oct. 7, 2011 But veiled contempt for Mormonism is becoming too regular of a feature on the opinion pages of the Times which published an incomprehensible screed against the faith by scholar...

WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow....

On Feb. 1, a federal court near Seattle, Wash., heard closing arguments in a case about the right of conscience, a fundamental American principle (Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky). That right is the...

– Aug. 16, 2011 It seems to me that the presidential campaign has become like a game of survivor: Who can lie, outlast and outwit to the end will win. The difference may be who is willing to...

The great U.S. President Abraham Lincoln chose for himself a Cabinet that had members that were certainly not his friends and often opposed him and his views. Yet he wanted their expertise and input,...

– Feb. 8, 2011 Two powerful forces are pushing crude oil prices up. First, the administration is restricting production of oil through its energy policy, in which it obstructs efforts to...

BYU women's coach Jeff Judkins. A recent article in the paper congratulated Jeff Judkins, coach of the Brigham Young University womens basketball team, on his 221 wins ("BYU women's...

The current Republican debates have become the latest episode of "Presidential Apprentice, Debating With the Candidates," or "Survivor of D.C." We wait to see who has the most...

For the first time in history, Utah has candidates running in four different congressional districts. Most of the interest is in the wide-open contests for the GOP nominations in the 2nd and 4th...

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Gasoline prices rose sharply in 2008 and again in 2011, largely as a consequence of rising global demand and limited supply. People's reactions were mixed. Some called...

(Oregon Coast) – Every time a major death incident happens along the Oregon coast, a tsunami of media outlets cover not just the tragedy itself but also reminders of beach safety. This works...

In the debate over how to fund a Vikings stadium, Mayor Chris Coleman took a strong stand for St. Paul last week. He's right to have done so. An eventual solution won't be a good one if it...

Mark Clayton Southers has been working on "The Gammage Project" for two years and directing the play through rehearsals as it readies for a Thursday opening. There was a moment when he let...

a function on January 21. Below is his speech at the election launch. * * * Thank you friends and comrades for turning out in such good numbers at a difficult time of the year given holidays and...

A rgentina once again is harassing the British-ruled Falkland Islands 500 miles off its southern coast, islands Argentine soldiers seized in 1982 and from which the British ejected them in a...

BOSTON -- TD Garden is not the most hospitable venue in the NHL. The team that resides there is big, tough and talented, and fans can be pretty hostile at times. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury...

Unseasonably warm weather across the Midwest and Northeast this winter has dealt a blow to local and regional resorts for the first half of the snowsports season, delivering less natural snow and...

On-again, off-again relationships can be so uncomfortable for friends and associates of the partners, a condition that is especially true when there's been acrimony, talk of betrayal, fights...

It's been too long since the phrases "unemployment rate" and "cautious optimism" could be found in the same sentence. That changed Friday with news that the nation's...

The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of...

"In retrospect,'' Bill DeWeese told me over dinner last June, "I should have been more administratively punctilious.'' That's the way Mr. DeWeese always has spoken...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," said Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in one of the most celebrated passages in...

Duquesne snapped a 14-game losing streak against Richmond Saturday night, beating the Spiders 81-72 in the Chuck Cooper Classic at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Duquesne dominated the boards 39-31, shot...

Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain's 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of...

In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to...

Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free...

. That is surely a clue that the people Abbott directed his "unAustralian" jibe at were never exactly aspiring to win any "fair dinkum Aussie" award. These are people who have...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The road for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, selected here Saturday and inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer, must go through Pittsburgh. Of the six new Hall of Famers,...

Palo Alto, Calif.
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 - published, of all places, on a Web...

As the world has grown smaller while our passion for novelty has expanded, our curiosity about different cultures, particularly those relatively untouched by what we deem "civilisation",...

Gary Oldman is an English actor who first gained acclaim for playing Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols in the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy," but he is perhaps more widely known for his roles as Sirius Black...

On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus....

Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt? The Republican presidential nomination...

Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to...

The Legislature's careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for "sunshine" are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the general...

The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year's legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work cooperatively...

It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us and,...

Fabio Capello , noted fan of opera, and collector of art, will be pondering the question of team spirit. He'll think of Steven Gerrard, who punched a disc jockey in the face as the man walked...

The writers Donald Antrim, Chad Harbach and Susan Orlean - three of the millions who will watch the Super Bowl today - chat about the appeal of sports. (This online conversation has been edited for...