At the beginning of the month of June 2008, Karl Green made a quick decision to improve the RIOY program. The process has been sped up for members in RIOY, as far as getting into the final program. The compensation plan has also changed, and it has gotten much better.

Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption, fraud and selling babies to flourish, the U.S. Embassy said in a new report obtained by The Associated Press.

A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan Wednesday left 13 people dead and 24 others wounded, officials said.

Runners carried the Olympic flame Thursday along a heavily guarded route through central New Delhi, protected by about 15,000 police spread through the capital to try to keep Tibetan exiles and other protesters from disrupting the ceremony.

Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo's Asian turtle program.

The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pushing to the battlefront a century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.

Rising health care costs and the faltering economy are making consumers worry that they won’t be able to save enough for a comfortable retirement.

Seven people died in Baghdad’s Sadr City as clashes between security forces and Shiite militiamen continued in the capital on Wednesday, a day after top U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus called for a suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals because of the renewed combat.

A Christian priest was killed in a drive-by shooting and a bomb exploded on a minibus, killing at least four passengers Saturday in separate attacks in Baghdad, police said.

Child welfare officials following up on an abuse complaint took custody of 18 girls who lived at a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.