Six months after the first global conference on the millennium bug, experts from over 170 countries met at the United Nations to assess progress in dealing with Year 2000 problems and preparations for coping with possible computer glitches.

Gays and lesbians are one step closer to becoming part of the Presbyterian church's leadership.

Miloud Oukili, a French clown who has been living in Bucharest, Romania, for the past six years, has rescued over 800 abandoned children from the sewers where they lived.

On June 2, the London-based newspaper Al-Zaman reported that a fatal clash erupted on May 24 between two Iraqi Republican Guard units.

For the first time in the history of England, a census of homosexual couples will be made.

As part of the celebrations of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Rome will be the host site for the next International Marian Congress.

The Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches have ended a nearly five-century-old dispute over how people achieve salvation.

According to a recent report by the World Health Organization, mankind has foolishly underestimated the potential threat posed by bacteria and viruses to millions.

Religion appears to be more important in the United States than any other Western country.

Global warming has been blamed for the sinking of two islands in the Pacific Ocean.

In its biggest food scandal since mad cow disease, the European Union called June 2 for the destruction of Belgian chickens, eggs and any byproducts that could be laced with cancer-causing dioxin.

In the 1960s, Vozrozhdeniye was merely a tiny island in the vast Aral Sea.

U.S. and European intelligence agencies are reporting mounting evidence that Russia and China have massively violated the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, and subsequent international and bilateral agreements to control biowarfare weapons.

At least two million women from Eastern Europe have been sold as "white slaves" in the West in recent years, according to unofficial estimates by Interpol.

The Montenegrin independence movement has moved into high gear as NATO troops move into Kosovo.

President Bill Clinton had a sign taped to his desk at the beginning of his first term in office that read, "It's the Economy, Stupid."

President Bill Clinton had a sign taped to his desk at the beginning of his first term in office that read, "It's the Economy, Stupid."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso have agreed on concrete measures that would lead to the establishment of a Latin American free trade zone.

Y2K scare continues to send some into refuge amongst those who don't depend on electrical devices.

India is fighting an ancient war in a desert village, not against an armed enemy, but against the scourge of polio.