Non-Power Conferences Overlooked by Committee
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In the wake of the 2006 N.C.A.A. tournament, which featured George Masonâs run to the Final Four, the selection committee appeared to shy away from smaller conference teams this year.
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Important details in little-seen government reports.
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Business & money: Â· Lack of strategy threatens stance on global talksÂ· Indecision over nuclear stopping green investment
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Corrects to make clear that U.N. Security Council did not meet on Thursday, paragraph 5
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Many important foreign policy topics went unexplored during the first debate of the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign but perhaps most unusual was the lack of attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Countries involved in talks on ending   North Korea's nuclear weapons program plan to hold discussions   soon excluding Pyongyang, the chief South Korean and U.S.   envoys to the stalled discussions said on Monday.
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Despite the world's rapt attention to its meetings, OPEC gatherings mean very little.
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Despite an overwhelming House vote last month to revive the Iraq Study Group, the White House has blocked reconvening the bipartisan panel to provide a second independent assessment of the military and political situation in Iraq, said several sources involved in the panel's December 2006 report.
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A bill to add a voting representative for the District of Columbia and another House member from Utah appears unlikely to be brought up in the upcoming lame-duck session.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she does not anticipate that the six parties seeking a solution to the North Korean nuclear issue will meet when Asian leaders gather later this week at a security forum in Malaysia.
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A two-day conference of the worldâs major greenhouse-gas-emitting nations served to highlight how isolated the Bush administration is on the issue of global warming.
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This year the leaders of some of the worldâs most respected financial institutions  have been caught either unaware or uninformed about giant risks their companies took.
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Major powers are considering a joint   meeting with Iran next week that excludes the United States as   a way of bridging a divide over its nuclear program, U.S. and   European diplomats said on Saturday.
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Non e' l'ora delle grandi conferenze internazionali
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Delegates to the Iraqi national conference in Baghdad are holding an unscheduled fourth day of talks.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22  - Gloomy news about Iraq and the Middle East peace process on Wednesday overshadowed the second day of the UN&#39;s annual gathering of world leaders.
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It&#39;s one thing for a White House to be asleep at the switch when nominating the third in command at the US Embassy in Grenada or an assistant undersecretary in the Department of Energy.