The Temporary Vegetarian columnist Elaine Louie offers five of her favorite dishes since the column began this spring.
(Reuters) - The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's revised war strategy in Afghanistan is expected to be the gradual deployment of about 30,000 more U.S. troops to secure population centers and train Afghan security forces.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved on Wednesday a limit on settlement construction for 10 months in a bid to revive peace negotiations with the Palestinians who said the partial moratorium did not meet their terms for talks.
Ozem Goldwire spent more than a year in jail after he confessed to killing his sister, after 17 hours of police interrogation. The charges were later thrown out.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will address Americans on the war in Afghanistan on December 1 and spell out a strategy that would see U.S. forces withdrawing within eight or nine years, the White House said on Wednesday.
Admissions officers at Dartmouth and other colleges tell The Choice where they draw the line in response to nagging parent questions.
Foreign-policy sage, sounding board, senatorial arm-twister, troubleshooter: Joe Biden could be the second-most-powerful vice president in history.
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear agency head Mohamed ElBaradei was interviewed by Reuters on Wednesday.
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors have no proof of more covert nuclear sites in Iran but a newly revealed plant makes no sense for civilian or military ends by itself and mistrust has arisen, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Wednesday.
The newly released memoir by Sarah Palin sold 469,000 copies in its first week of release, putting it ahead of new releases from authors like James Patterson and Stephen King.
Let us give thanks and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fight over a U.S. government-run public insurance plan may be getting louder and noisier, but for now the program's political symbolism far exceeds its practical impact on expanding health coverage.
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors have no proof of more covert nuclear sites in Iran but a newly revealed plant makes no sense for civilian or military ends by itself and mistrust has arisen, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will address Americans on the war in Afghanistan on December 1 and spell out a strategy that would see U.S. forces withdrawing within eight or nine years, the White House said on Wednesday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.
After the world’s attention has left the victims and their families, survival gives them reason to be thankful.
A new brochure helps family members home for holiday visits talk to their parents about their multiple medications.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey voters are split on whether to legalize gay marriage, but more people now oppose it than support it, a poll found on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people are lined up at an Army base in North Carolina where former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin ...
After 10 months in office, President Obama granted his first pardon to "Courage," a turkey spared the Thanksgiving table.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court indicted seven Pakistani suspects on terror charges on Wednesday in connection with last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, a defense lawyer said.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The paramilitary troops outside the Trident and Taj Mahal hotels suggest a higher level of security a year after militants laid siege to Mumbai, but it may all be a mirage as the country still remains very vulnerable.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.
Under a policy that has existed at least since the Clinton administration, presidents have not sent letters to survivors of those who took their own lives.
President Obama will go to Copenhagen next month, a White House official said Wednesday, to participate in a long-anticipated, ...
The statement suggests that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may be willing to clash with the teachers’ union.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that NATO nations are ready to offer about 5,000 more troops for the war in ...
A day after Google's executive chairman announced a virtual library of Iraq's National Museum, the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki inaugurated its own YouTube channel.
President Obama will offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, White House officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a house on Wednesday and killed six members of the same family, including two women and a teenage girl, in a conservative rural area of Iraq, police said.