Friday Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial vote on their sweeping health care bill. Meanwhile, moderates Democrats appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama's signature issue.

A day after students took over Campbell Hall and and blocked streets on the campus of UCLA, they go on protesting a hike in student fees at the University of Calfornia system.

Palestinian leaders are warning Israel that its approval of the new housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem may put an end to the peace talks. The warning came after the United States condemned the Israeli decision. The Palestinians want Washington to toughen its approach on Israel.

  Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited news on the birth of one crewman's child Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.

Today the British Government published its Digital Economy Bill. The legislation, which aims to realise the commitments set out in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain White Paper published in June 2009, has failed to specify a date for FM radio stations to be upgraded to DAB.

The price of a vaccine that helps babies fight off killer diseases has been forced down, thanks to a co-ordinated buying policy to meet the growing demand from developing countries, according to a U.N.-backed health alliance' report.

Yesterday Google presented an early version of its Chrome operating system. the company announced that it would be released to the open source community.

Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them to protect themselves from swine flu.

Wednesday U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to end the Afghan war before he leaves office. Meanwhile, Pakistan is waiting nervously for new US strategy, worried that a U.S. troops surge would widen the war but also keen to see a robust U.S. commitment that would convince the Taliban to talk.

U.S. scientists made funny discovery which may help men  to treat premature ejaculation -  spray works as  a drug.

Friday six world powers expressed disappointment that Iran had not accepted proposals intended to delay its potential ability to make nuclear bombs, and urged Tehran to reconsider.

One person was killed when one of Miley Cyrus' tour bused crashed on an Interstate in rural Virginia on Friday (November 20). The Hannah Montana star was not on the bus that crashed at around 8:15 a.m.

 UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence — two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.

A new character- the Invisible Man - joins the "Twilight" family in "New Moon". Not far into the picture, the undead Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) fades out of the action for a bit, and is replaced by wolf boy Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).

Today the Convention on the Rights of Child, the most ratified treaty in the world, turns 20 years old today. On November 20 1989, the Convention on the Rights of Child entered into force. Today only two countries remain outside the treaty: Somalia...and the United States. (Somalia is without a functioning government. The United States is without a functioning Senate.) To mark the anniversary, UNICEF released a report today, "State of the World's Children, 2009" and UNICEF director Ann Venemen highlighted some of the Convention's accomplishments.