Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
A U.
S. university professor has been appointed director of the International Tracing Service's Holocaust-era archive in the German town of Bad Arolsen.The ITS said Wednesday its 11-member international commission had voted to name Rebecca Boehling, a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, to head the archive starting Jan. 1, 2013.Boehling is an expert on the Holocaust, World War II and the early postwar period in Germany.The ITS was established by Western Allies in the final days of World War II and run by the Red Cross to help uncover the fates of Holocaust victims and others who suffered under the Nazi regime.In 2007, scholars and researchers were allowed access to the documents, beginning the archive's transformation from a tracing service to a research institution....The most sophisticated and powerful cyberweapon uncovered to date was written in the LUA computer language, cyber security experts tell Fox News -- the same one used...
The U.N.'s top human rights body will hold a special session Friday on the deteriorating situation in Syria and last week's massacre of more than 100 Syrian villager...
Col Cedric Leighton explains what software this new virus targets and who is at risk
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family welcomed design changes by architect Frank Gehry for a memorial honoring the World War II general but said Wednesday that any...
A new Jewish studies center is opening in the German capital to facilitate research into Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Islamic relations, Holocaust remembrance, and ot...
A Jet Airways plane has made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport after its left engine caught fire, but the Indian airline says no one was hurt.The airline says i...
Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Bahrain is not for sale" jammed a major highway Friday to denounce proposals for closer unity between the unrest-torn Gulf ...
Militants have posted online a video in which a man identifying himself as a Saudi diplomat kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Yemen appeals to Saudi Arabia's rulers to respon...
Militants have posted online a video in which a man identifying himself as a Saudi diplomat kidnapped by al-Qaida in Yemen appeals to Saudi Arabia's rulers to respon...
Russia wants to help U.N. envoy Kofi Annan achieve "positive results" and prevent an all-out civil war in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said in Germany on Friday.R...
The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contri...
The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about €20 billion ($25 billion) in new transmission networks over the next decade ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Vladimir Putin on Friday to allow "democratic diversity" to develop in Russia as he made his first trip abroad since returnin...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Vladimir Putin on Friday to allow "democratic diversity" to develop in Russia as he made his first trip abroad since returnin...
President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland ...
The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero.The president's remark had...
Poland's leaders said Wednesday they weren't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish dea...
Jordan's king has urged for a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis in talks with international envoy Kofi Annan.The royal palace says King Abdullah II and Annan di...
John Stossel tackles oil misconceptions
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