BANGKOK — Thailand’s new health minister said Friday he would keep the country’s controversial generic drugs program but stopped short of saying whether the new government would expand the scheme. “M…

“The New York Times” has ranked Tunisia as the world’s third tourist hot spot in the world for 2008. Over a total of 53 countries, Tunisia is ranked immediately after Portugal , with Laos in first place. Tunisia is followed by Mauritius , which in turn is followed by Miami Beach and South Beach.

Republican Senator John McCain, a Vietnam war hero whose candidacy was written off barely three months ago amid drying campaign coffers and eroding popular support, has a potential shot at becoming America’s next president.

Hanoi - Prominent Vietnamese dissident Hoang Minh Chinh, a former top ideologist in the Communist Party who became disillusioned with the regime and called for democracy, has died at age 85, a police …