MOSCOW — Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final...

Warren Buffett did not become the world's third richest man by shunning commercial opportunities but has he lost his touch? The "Oracle of Omaha" is famed for his sage advice – with financial pilgrims travelling thousands of miles t...

MOSCOW — Hoping to defuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia’s foreign minister clashed publicly Thursday over an announcement that Russia would complete a nuclear power plant in Iran this summer....

The negative reactions are snowballing from multiple fronts against Israel’s highly controversial decision to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, an announcement that put the kibosh on Vice President Joe Biden’s goodwil...

​36-year-old Katherine Brotherton of Johnson County, Indiana claims her dogs were biting her. Police suspect that may be because she beat them and left them chained in the yard for extended period...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has assured the people of Indonesia that he is looking forward to visiting his former home once the health care...

With health care reform so dependent on Congressional Budget Office scores, there's a lot of coverage of the office and how it works today. Let's start with the Washington Post, which has a smart piece on the high levels of un...

A helicopter with Spanish Queen Sofia en route from Toledo to the capital of Madrid made an emergency landing due to technical problems, El Pais reported....

Greta Gerwig, who co-stars with Ben Stiller in the new movie Greenberg, recounts walking around Los Angeles and trespassing at the Chateau Marmont-with $97.89 in her bank account, before she got her break. It's March 2009. It is st...

​Reader Jadensmokes responds to Jonathan Ayers' Wife Over Police Shooting of Pastor in Drug Bust Gone Bad. She argues that the preacher's affair put him in the wrong place at the wrong time, so yo...

Jersey City, NJ (The Weekly Vice) - Nitinkumar Patel, a 27-year-old Jersey City man was jailed after he allegedly urinated on at least seven women.According to Jersey City police, Patel was arrested by undercover officers after he a...

History shows that estimating the costs of a health care entitlement is a fool's errand. ...

The Middle East Quartet of international mediators during a meeting in Moscow has called on the Israeli government to freeze all settlement activity in East Jerusalem....

The government of the Dominican Republic announced that it will construct a university in neighboring Haiti for 10,000 students, writes Duarte 101 [es].

Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could...

In two interviews yesterday, Bart Stupak revealed a great deal about himself, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, politics and the internal workings of our "pro-choice" Democratic party.  First, in what shouldn't be su...

​Breakfast Reading from the Village Voice Empire: In 1976, waitress Becky Doisy told friends she was going to have a drink with Johnny Wright, where she would tell him she wanted Wright to leave h...

A large herd of hungry elephants has taken over part of the Indonesian village of Petani on the island of Sumatra, forcing villagers to flee their homes, the country's Antara news agency reported on Friday....

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who earlier postponed his visit to the turbulent region amid a row between the U.S. and Israel over plans for new settlement construction in east Jerusalem, would travel to the Middle East on ...