After a three-hour emergency session Sunday, the United Nations Security Council failed to come to any agreement on how to deal with North Korea's rocket launch over the weekend. Deliberations will continue Monday. Sources say China, Russia Libya and Vietnam are blocking any resolution or punitive measures. They call for caution and restraint while the U.S. is calling for a strong and unified response. Officials believe the most that could happen would be a Security Council presidential statement condemning the ...

By all accounts, North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday, ignoring international warnings against doing so. The question is: Where's the payload? According to North Korea's official media, not only did the country successfully send a communications satellite into orbit, but "it is sending to the Earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans 'Song of General Kim Il Sung' and 'Song of General Kim Jong Il.'" The United States, while accusing the reclusive nation of taking provocative action ...

President Obama urged nations Sunday to get rid of nuclear weapons, saying that the U.S. is committed to reducing nuclear stocks within the next four years. "Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous legacies of the Cold War," Obama said in a speech in front of a huge crowd outside the medieval Prague Castle in the Czech Republic. "The U.S. will take concrete steps. ... We will begin the work of reducing our arsenals and stockpiles." The president, who was on ...

American officials condemned the North Korean launch of a long-range rocket Sunday, with President Obama calling it a "provocative act." The rocket, a Taepodong 2, was launched at around 11:30 a.m. local time Sunday (2:30 a.m. GMT) at a base in the northeastern part of the country. Officials in Washington, D.C., confirmed early Sunday that the rocket cleared Japan. Preliminary data show that two objects, likely boosters from the rocket, apparently fell around Japan -- one in the Sea of ...

President Barack Obama loves to talk about the great promise of energy reform, but all it takes is one glance down Pennsylvania Avenue to get a sense of the pitfalls of such ambitious designs. That was especially clear on Tuesday, as Congress ran both hot and cold on legislation to fight global warming. The House produced a long-awaited bill to regulate 85% of ...

South Korea scored a late goal Wednesday to defeat North Korea 1-0 in a World Cup qualifying match set amid the backdrop of heightened political tensions in the region. Substitute Kim Chi-Woo scored in the 88th minute when his left-footed free kick went past defenders and into the back of the net. Replays showed that a North Korean defender may have deflected the ball just enough to prevent goalkeeper Lee Woon-Jae from the save. The match in Seoul was played ...

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown say the G-20 must agree tough new rules for the banking system to help lift the world out of recession. Obama and Brown met for more than two hours in London Wednesday, the day before the G-20 summit begins. At a press conference afterwards the pair pushed for a united front to tackle the economic crisis. Obama thanked Brown for his leadership during the economic crisis, saying he had showed ...

London prepared on Wednesday for what police warned could be "unprecedented" mass protests by anti-capitalist and climate change campaigners ahead of Thursday's G-20 economic summit. Metropolitan Police leaders were prepared to deploy a large number of officers to maintain public order. Authorities were especially bracing for possible violence around the Bank of England, which is expected to be the focus of protests on what's being dubbed "Financial Fools Day." Authorities investigated a suspicious package found Tuesday in the vicinity of ...

Computer experts waited early Wednesday to see what impact -- if any -- the worm known as Conficker.c will have on the world's computers. "As long as you've patched or at least brought your antivirus software up to speed, you should be fine," said Chris Pirillo, a tech expert for CNN.com. And there are plenty of anti-virus software packages available. "I believe just about everybody out there," Pirillo said, "has a removal tool." Still, the worm can wreak havoc, he ...

Don't expect President Barack Obama to look into President Dmitri Medvedev's eyes and "get a sense of his soul" when he meets his Russian counterpart on Wednesday at the G-20 summit in London. That was what then President George W. Bush claimed to have done during his first meeting with Vladimir Putin early in 2001, but Obama and Medvedev have more immediate and practical concerns: Washington urgently needs Moscow's help in achieving one of its key foreign policy priorities — ...