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Bajagua, a local developer, is pushing ahead with plans to build a sewage treatment plant in Tijuana -- even though the federal government has suspended the contract. Some environmentalists say the Ba

Christopher Dell seems to like challenging jobs. He's heading to Kabul later this summer, after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. There, he earned a reputation for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe's regime.

California's attorney general and a number of other states are suing the Bush Administration over fuel efficiency standards. A federal court in San Francisco is hearing the suit on Monday. From Sacram

Germany-based DaimlerChrysler announced Monday that it is selling 80 percent of the Chrysler Group to a private equity fund for $7.4 billion. The new owner, Cerberus Capital Management, inherits an automobile company that is losing money and laying off workers. Here, a look under the hood at the sale.

The U.S.-backed government in Lebanon is alarmed by the Bush administration's move to have more contact with the governments of Syria and Iran. The Lebanon government is locked in a 6-month-old confrontation with Hezbollah, which is leading an opposition alliance backed by Iran and Syria.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Moscow for a two-day visit to repair the United States' fraying relationship with Russia. The countries will discuss Russia's objections to a U.S.-led missile defense system for Eastern Europe.

After months of negotiations, Congress appears no closer to a consensus on an overhaul of immigration policy. But competing interests are starting to agree that leaving the dysfunctional system unchanged for now might not be the worst idea.

A new history project helps Cambodia take a tiny step toward confronting the murderous four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. As many as 2 million people died, but the era is barely mentioned in school textbooks.

Catholic doctrine spilled into the streets of Rome this weekend, as tens of thousands of Italians rallied against a proposed civil unions law, while others staged a counter-demonstration. The law at issue would give greater rights to unmarried couples, including gay couples.

A federal judge in New Jersey has ordered that the six young immigrants arrested for plotting an attack on Fort Dix be kept in detention. At a hearing, most of the men waived their rights to argue for bail. But their lawyers took the opportunity to say the men are not radical Islamic terrorists, as prosecutors have said.