The latest headlines from The Most Important News....U.S. and South Korean warshipsbegan military exercises on Sunday in the Yellow Sea despite warnings from North Korea.
North Korea said Sunday that the Korean Peninsula is now in a state of "ultra-emergency".
South Korean are wondering if they should start looking for cover as North Korea threatened to launch a "sea of fire" over military drills in the Yellow Sea with the US military.
South Korea mistakenly fired an artillery shell toward the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Sunday afternoon and soon sent a message to North Korea that the firing was accidental, military officials said.
A mass exodus of North Korean workers from the Far East of Russia is under way, according to reports coming out of the region. As the two Koreas edged towards the brink of war this week, it appears that the workers in Russia have been called back to aid potential military operations.
China is proposing to convene an emergency consultation with members of the six-party talksamid growing tensions on the Korean peninsula, a Chinese official said Sunday.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has instructed all cabinet ministers to remain in Tokyoduring the military exercises in order to prepare for any contingency.
Turkey will not remain silent if Israel attacks Lebanon or Gaza, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Beirut on Thursday, as ties between the longtime allies remained at an all-time low.
A day before parliamentary elections in Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, said if his movement wins the election, it will work to sever relations with Israel.
The Fatah Revolutionary Council concluded its fifth convention in Ramallah over the weekend by declaring its refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The council also urged the Palestinian Authority leadership to work toward foiling a new Israeli law requiring a referendum before any withdrawal from Jerusalem and the Golan Heights that has not been passed by two thirds of the Knesset.
An employee of the nuclear plant near Isfahan, who was kidnapped by a separatist group in Iran, has revealed the true goals of the Iranian nuclear program – developing nuclear weapons.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is proposing a European free trade zone that would stretch from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
Russia is closer then ever to getting into the WTO.
More than 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets of Dublin on Sunday to protest against the international bailout and four years of austerity.
Newspapers in Europe and the United States began publishing details of tens of thousands of confidential U.S. diplomatic documents released by Wikileaks on Sunday, spawning condemnation from the White House and congressional leaders.
U.S. home sales continue to drop at an alarming pace.
The amount of red tape that many U.S. businesses now have to deal with is absolutely incredible.
Consumer spending currently accounts for an astounding 70 percent of GDP in the United States.
The FDIC problem bank list is now up to a whopping 919 banks.
The chair of the FDIC is warning that U.S. federal debt held by the public could rise from 62 percent of gross domestic product this year to 185 percent in 2035.
A Michigan man told police that he didn't want his three young sons around when he attempted to hang himself in his home.
The European Union has approved a massive rescue package for Ireland which, if drawn down in its entirety today, would attract an average interest rate of 5.83 per cent.
European officials are doing their best to contain the growing debt crisis that is sweeping the continent.
Some Spanish banks are so desperate for funding that they are now offering 5 percent intereston deposits.
The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank warned Thursday.
One of Australia's biggest banks is scrambling to process payments to millions of customers, who potentially face days of uncertainty about when they will be able to access their money.
Preliminary reports of Black Friday sales are starting to come in. The verdict so far: The crowds were bigger and people walked away with arms full of goodies, but shoppers spent only modestly more this year.
Three women in West Palm Beach, Florida, say $1,000 worth of Best Buy merchandise was stolen from their car Friday morning within minutes of being purchased.
Unruly Wal-Mart shoppers in Sacramento, California prompted an evacuation of the store on Black Friday.
Obama administration officials are looking at the possibility of codifying detention without trial and are awaiting legislation that is supposed to come out of Congress early next year.
As part of a new expansion of government power over information, the Department of Homeland Security has begun seizing and shutting down internet websites (web domains)without due process or a proper trial.
It is being reported that the Department of Homeland Security is blocking the shipping of any NON-COMMERCIAL parcel into the United States that weighs more than 0.9 pounds (under 16 ounces) until they are supplied with the Social Security number (or taxpayer ID number) of the person receiving the package.
A Miami man whose beating at the hands of police was captured on cell phone video has been charged with resisting arrest without violence, a charge his lawyer says came from nothing more than the man's attempts to cover his head from the blows.
New research indicates that THz waves (such as those produced by the new airport body scanners) unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann says that Fox News must fire Judge Napolitano for being a 9/11 truther.
Most Americans don't realize that Agenda 21 is a direct assault on private property rights and American sovereignty, and that it could soon be coming to a neighborhood near them.
The aviation and space press buzzed last week with the news that NASA had quietly moved its two long-grounded X-34 space planes from open storage at the space agency’s Dryden center — located on Edwards Air Force Base in California — to a test pilot school in the Mojave Desert.
The controversial animal disease research laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, located on the relatively remote island off the tip of Long Island will be moving to the heartland of America, Manhattan, Kansas, some time on or around 2014.
Meat and milk from cloned cows is safe to eat, the UK government's leading food scientist has ruled.
Amazon.com is promoting some absolutely mind blowing deals for "Cyber Monday".
A major evangelical organization which supports a complementarian position on manhood and womanhood says the newest translation of the NIV Bible is a significant improvement over its predecessor, the TNIV, although the group says it still cannot endorse it because it contains many of the same problems.
The Canadian bill seeking to enshrine special rights for so-called “transsexuals”, which has been labeled a “bathroom bill” because it would allow men to use women’s bathrooms, is at grave risk of passing as early as next week.
A new word has been coined for the growing number of straight women who flirt with bisexuality... flexisexual.
In January, the National Right to Life Committee provided a new analysis of the total number of abortions done in the 37 years since the Roe v. Wade decision. The Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling — allowing virtually unlimited abortions at any time throughout pregnancy — in January 1973. The NRLC analysis found that 52 million unborn children had been killed in abortions as of January.
Lastly, actor Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror advisory list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling.
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