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In recent weeks, one would have thought the nation's first black president was also the nation's biggest homophobe. Everyone from Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black and radio personality Rachel Maddow to Joe Solmonese, the president of Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest gay advocacy group, seem to be blasting Obama for everything from 'don't ask don't tell' to Adam Lambert not winning American Idol. In their minds, Obama is not moving fast enough on behalf of the GLBT community. The outcry is not completely without merit -- the Justice Department's unnerving brief on the Defense of Marriage Act immediately comes to mind. I was upset by some of the statements, but not surprised. (After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Ronald Reagan's initial handling of AIDS and, more recently, Katrina, there is little that surprises me when it comes to the government and the treatment of its people.) Still, rarely has criticism regarding Obama and the GLBT community come from the kind o

Today, at 41 and 55 years old, respectively, they are considered by most adoption agencies to be too old to raise a newborn in the United States. Even abroad, certain countries place age limits on ado...

WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator is appealing to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to recognize the nature of the enemy as the country considers how to prosecute detainees from the war on terror.

Stockholm - Sweden will halt the planned extradition of an alleged Rwandan war criminal to the East African country on the request from the European Court of Human Rights, Justice Minister Beatrice Ask said Thursday. The Swedish government last said ...

Sweden is to become the first country to slap 'climate-friendly' labels on food products. The hope is that the labels will prompt consumers to buy greener products, but there are worries that some companies may use the scheme to 'greenwash'.

Amsterdam - An Amsterdam court is due to hear a case on Thursday concerning alleged wiretapping of journalists by the country's secret service. The Netherlands' biggest selling newspaper, De Telegraaf, the Dutch journalists association NVJ and the Na...

FREETOWN, Jul 15 (IPS) - Two Sierra Leonean radio stations have been stripped of their licences. The national regulatory body, the Independent Media Commission (IMC), says the stations failed to comply with the country's media code.

A group of college counselors from high schools across the country engaged in a 12-day bicycle tour of more than a dozen colleges.

counterpart Bill English Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow Australians and New Zealanders to take their pension savings with them when they move between the two countries...

A new analysis from Statistics Canada looks at the one in five people who smoke in this country, and their attempts to butt out.