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A day after Israeli mortar shells killed as many as 40 Palestinians outside a U.N. school in Gaza, Israel was under pressure to accept a pause in the fighting.

Israel is applying the military insight it gained from the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, but diplomatic lessons do not seem to have been so well applied.

Journalists have been barred from the battle zone in Gaza, but they are given full access to sites in Israel hit by Hamas rockets.

Most of the coal byproduct dumps across the United States are unregulated, although they contain chemicals considered as threats to human health.

A top aide for Andrew M. Cuomo urged labor leaders and upstate officials to refrain from embracing Caroline Kennedy for New York’s Senate seat.

As the city’s demographics shift, many elderly Italian immigrants see the tight-knit enclaves they built around the city slowly disappearing.

Barack Obama said that his administration would be forced to impose tighter discipline on government.

Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now she’s disappeared from public view.

International pressure builds for Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to accept a UN-backed truce.

Exports of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine stop altogether with both countries accusing each other of turning off the tap.

The UK is named as one of Europe's worst countries for measles, dashing global hopes of eradicating the disease by 2010.

The boss of Satyam, India's fourth-biggest software firm, resigns after admitting to irregularities in its accounts.

Iraqi authorities close a major Shia shrine in Baghdad to women amid security concerns as the rite of Ashura reaches its climax.

Three Chinese search engines apologise for linking to pornography sites after criticism from the government.

Coalition forces kill 32 Taleban fighters in an operation east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, the US military says.

The terrorist threat to the UK has been reduced by a series of successful criminal prosecutions, the head of MI5 says.

Thousands of people gather in Ghana's capital to see President-elect John Atta Mills sworn in after his narrow poll win.

Shirley O. Corriher, a biochemist turned folksy food scientist, helps answer some kitchen curiosities.

We have a brief chance to cure ourselves. But first we need to ask: of what?

Congress should conduct an inquest into the economic crisis. For inspiration, it can turn to Ferdinand Pecora’s questioning in Senate hearings that demystified the 1929 crash.

Parishioners have been guarding a church for 1,533 days so that the archdiocese cannot sell it.

You start to pity George W. Bush until you remember the vast wreckage that stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street.

The time to go all out in Afghanistan was in the immediate aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks. That time has passed.

Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression. Will we “act swiftly and boldly” enough to stop that from happening?

Apple said it would begin selling song downloads without anticopying measures and change its pricing structure.

Rob Holman’s collection of sand from around the world is a valuable teaching tool for how the oceans operate.

This isn’t a war of attrition between Israelis and Palestinians. It’s a series of psychological exchanges designed to shift the balance of morale.