Huge decline in the gem trade is affecting a small, ethnically diverse district in Belgium...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
LONDON — A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elec...
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment
The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.
BBC | Posted 05.12.2009 | Green
Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals. Ghent ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy
A video of almost 200 people taking over Antwerpen's Centraal Station in Belgium and doing a carefully choreographed dance to the Do Re Mi song (aka M...
Earthtimes | Posted 04.01.2009 | World
A broad majority in the Swedish parliament Wednesday approved adoption of same-sex marriage legislation after a six-hour debate. Six of the seven part...
Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 03.18.2009 | Home
Never one to limit himself to a genre, J.J. Abrams is jumping out of the bold world of outer space and into a different sort of action. The Hollywood ...
AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
BRUSSELS — Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the c...
Abigail Pesta | Posted 02.12.2009 | Home
It seems that even bloodthirsty terrorists can fall googly-eyed in love. Reporter Paul Cruickshank, in the March issue of Marie Claire, tells the di...
BBC NEWS | Posted 01.26.2009 | World
The Belgian man charged with killing two babies and a nurse at a creche near Brussels is also suspected of killing an elderly woman, officials have sa...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
DENDERMONDE, Belgium — A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbin...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
On the escaping planes that pinballed from airport to airport across the stormy skies, soldiers and civilians sat side by side and got to know each other over Ritz Chips, salted peanuts and Cokes as they together fought off fatigue.
AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 12.20.2008 | World
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Belgium's king met behind closed doors with elected officials Saturday in an attempt to resolve a political crisis that has ...
AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 12.11.2008 | World
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Police detained 14 suspected al-Qaida-linked extremists on Thursday in raids in Brussels and eastern Belgium, including one ...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 12.10.2008 | World
What is America? Growing up, I have been able to view the country from several perspectives: Black, female, first-generation American, and a former military child.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.
Daily Telegraph | Posted 11.21.2008 | Entertainment
Hergé's startling confession is just one of the revealing insights into his private thoughts, including love declarations to his first wife and a gui...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
Our honoring of Veterans Day suffers by comparison with Memorial Day, which has a similar purpose and is more widely observed as a holiday because it starts the U.S. summer season.
Lea Lane | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
"In Flanders Fields" is among the most memorable war poems ever. It is especially powerful when you read it slowly aloud.
Ari Herzog | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home
Belgian blogger Marco Rossi wrote: "Thank you Obama. You did it. You showed the world that change can happen."
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home
"Will Mississippi election officials accept a Czech-language notarization?" Brian Reagan, an American citizen living in Prague, asked OffTheBus. Reaga...
AP | AOIFE WHITE | Posted 09.28.2008 | Business
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Dutch-Belgian bank and insurance giant Fortis NV was given a 11.2 billion euro ($16.4 billion) lifeline to avert insolvency ...
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
How would you like to live in the White House? Take the HuffPost Poll of World Leaders' Residences...
UPDATE: Paris Jackson also spoke. Watch her moving...
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
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Below are photos from Michael Jackson's memorial, with Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson,...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
It's been a rocky year for Letterman and Palin. He joked...
Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
PARIS — French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, who was recently banned for betting on matches,...
It was with interest that I read Dr. Soram Khalsa's post on The Huffington Post...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
When making a list of "smart animals," crows probably wouldn't be at the top for...
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Guardian | Posted 06.23.2009 | World