A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme. Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had done ...

North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday. The North, believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least a half-dozen bombs, quit international disarmament-for-aid negotiations and conducted a second ...

Calling the subjugation of women a threat to American security, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a vibrant plea to give equal rights to women around the world. "The subjugation of women is a direct threat to the security of the United States," the chief US diplomat told an international women's conference which closed Friday at UN headquarters ...