Central African Republic

by Mark Silva Races to watch, or hope for: (This politically sordid day is probably irretrievable at this point, anyway, so we'll set the marker with some handicaps on this possible race:) In Louisiana, Republican Sen. David Vitter could be......

What they say about hotel bargains right now is true. How cheap is our special rate at a boutique San Francisco hotel just off Union Square? Let me just say that when I was told it would cost $45 a night to......

by Martin Zimmerman and Tiffany Hsu and Jim Puzzanghera With surprising swiftness, the government's "cash for clunkers" program has burned through its $1-billion budget in less than a week as car buyers swarmed dealerships, and federal officials were...

by Mark Silva Ever since the election of a young president from Hope, Arkansas, the notion of a new generation unbridled by the burdens of the past has carried a certain and powerful political currency. "Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone,'' they......

Who is the ambassador? He's not a real ambassador. He's a fake ambassador, a persona adopted by Danish documentarian Mads Brugger, the man behind this sardonic investigative essay on the corrupt blood diamond trade centered in the Central African...

Taurus captivated the public with its weird styling when introduced for 1986 and captured the auto sales crown from the Honda Accord. But Ford couldn't handle success. A 1996 redesign proved too radical. Worse, a name change to Five Hundred in 2005...

In Friday's Pictures in the News: People leave Damara, the last strategic town keeping Central African Republic rebels from the country's capital, Bangui; Palestinians celebrate the 48th anniversary of the Fatah movement in Gaza; firefighters carry a...

The notorious militia headed by Joseph Kony that has kidnapped hundreds of children and forced them to fight and serve as sex slaves must be stopped, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday in Uganda. But refugee and activist groups say the Lord&#...

Former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga was ordered Tuesday to serve 14 years in prison for enlisting children as soldiers, the first sentence handed down by the decade-old International Criminal Court....

A new United Nations report shows that children are recruited and used as combatants in countries spanning from Colombia to the Philippines. Click for an interactive map based on the information and numbers gathered by the U.N....

After waiting almost a decade for justice, Congolese victims of former warlord Thomas Lubanga saw him convicted Wednesday by the International Criminal Court at the Hague, the first verdict in the panel's 10-year history. Lubanga could face life...

A notorious militia that has terrorized Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has stepped up its attacks this year, displacing more than 4,200 people, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday. The Lord’s Resistance Army and its infamous...