Songs, laughter, teasing and tender words marked Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration Saturday as presidents, village elders and African royalty joined him for a festive luncheon on his rural homestead. ...more

July 20, 2008

Irena Sendler - credited with saving an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in baskets - died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. ...more

May 13, 2008

Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a disaster of unimaginable scale. ...more

May 9, 2008

Al Gore advised Wall Street leaders and institutional investors Thursday to ditch businesses too reliant on carbon-intensive energy - or prepare for huge losses down the road. ...more

February 15, 2008

As a kid in Brooklyn, N.Y., I was an avid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. I had buddies who were New York Giant fans. ...more

January 7, 2008

You don't have to be religious to qualify as a fundamentalist. You can be Al Gore, the messiah figure for the global warming cult, whose followers truly believe their gospel of imminent extermination in a Noah-like flood, if we don't immediately change our carbon polluting ways. ...more

December 28, 2007

Stephen Colbert was voted AP Celebrity of the Year by newspaper editors and broadcast producers who said he had the biggest impact on pop culture in 2007. ...more

December 21, 2007

Nobel laureate Al Gore said Thursday that the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions. ...more

December 14, 2007

Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or "stand accountable before history for their failure to act." ...more

December 11, 2007

Al Gore is a man of some stature. He was a U.S. senator and a vice president. Lately he has promoted global warming. Mr. Gore is a wealthy man that uses 20 times as much energy as the average family. He flies by private jet and drives SUVs, all of this while lecturing to the rest of us to conserve. ...more

December 6, 2007