Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won't have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon's liability by 90% to half a billion. It's so cheap, it's like a permit to spill.
A number of friends have confided that we women just have to accept that if we want women leaders in the world, we should expect them to succeed their husbands or fathers as leaders because very few women can convince their country-persons to trust them on their own merits.
North Korea has handed over a declaration on its nuclear activities to China, prompting the US president to announce that Washington will move to take Pyongyang off a US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Iraq and the US are making progress in efforts to forge a new security deal on a long-term US military presence in the country, the Iraqi president has said.
Firefighters have been battling a large forest fire threatening the Greek capital, Athens, after fierce winds and high temperatures rapidly spread the blaze across a nearby mountain.
An initial investigation into a Syrian site alleged by the US to have hosted a secret nuclear reactor was inconclusive, a senior UN inspector has said.
East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, has said he is considering stepping down from his post and taking up a senior position with the United Nations.
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South Korea has lifted a ban on US beef imports despite violent protests against the move.
Firefighters have been battling a large forest fire threatening the Greek capital, Athens, after fierce winds and high temperatures rapidly spread the blaze across a nearby mountain.
