Recent Chandler High School graduate Ariana Enriquez has been selected to participate in The Smithsonian Institution’s national Young Ambassadors Program.

Teachers from Mesa and Higley unified school districts have been named Arizona Educational Foundation 2013 Ambassadors for Excellence. Lindsey Connor, a seventh-grade mathematics teacher at Gilbert’s San Tan Elementary School in the Higley Unified School District and Nancie Lindblom, an American history and government teacher at Mesa’s Skyline High School, are two of the five ambassadors vying for the “Teacher of the Year” title that will be announced Nov. 14.

WASHINGTON - President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology.

WASHINGTON - President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States' top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq "will be free and democratic and peaceful."

The Pentagon Winds woodwind quintet is an ensemble of musicians who will perform an outdoor concert at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Sun City Grand, 19753 N. Remington Drive, Surprise.

Secretary Powell's Remarks to United Nations

Most Americans, it’s a safe bet, probably don’t know that Canada has a national election on Monday, with the increasingly probable outcome that our friends and neighbors will have a new prime minister.

April 11, 2005

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- More countries on Wednesday lined up against war with Iraq as the United States and Britain struggled to find support for a new Security Council resolution authorizing force against Saddam Hussein.

UNITED NATIONS -- Seeking U.N. approval for military action against Iraq, the United States, Britain and Spain submitted a resolution to the Security Council Monday declaring that Saddam Hussein has missed “the final opportunity’’ to disarm peacefully.

OUTSIDE TSKHINVALI, Georgia - Russia and small, U.S.-allied Georgia headed toward a wider war Saturday as Russian tanks rumbled into the contested province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town, escalating a conflict that already has left hundreds dead.

 Ireland President Mary McAleese will become the first foreign head of state to visit SkySong, the Arizona State University innovation center in Scottsdale, next Monday.

UNITED NATIONS -- Seeking U.N. approval for military action against Iraq, the United States, Britain and Spain submitted a resolution to the Security Council Monday declaring that Saddam Hussein has missed “the final opportunity’’ to disarm peacefully.

BEERWAH, Australia - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, killed in a stingray attack this week, knew the risks involved in his work and often discussed the possibility he might die doing it, his father said Wednesday.

Who, for the last six months, has been U.S. ambassador to the United Nations? If you don’t know, don’t feel bad. The relative anonymity of recent ambassadors is partly a result of the international body’s growing irrelevance and partly because the job too often has been filled by nonentities.

“Naturally it was a terrorist attack in Libya. I don’t think it was a coincidence that it happened on 9/11. Who else would show up at a demonstration with rocket-propelled grenades or assault rifles besides terrorists or our own tea party?”

UNITED NATIONS - Despite U.S. reluctance, the U.N. Security Council plans to hold a meeting of foreign ministers Thursday to discuss an Arab League proposal to revive the Mideast peace process with a goal of ending all Arab-Israeli conflicts.

I’m mad as hell and I can’t take it anymore! We have a president who misses nearly 60 percent of national security briefings. Iran has said it wants to wipe Israel off the map and is developing nuclear weapons. The prime minister of Israel wants to meet with the president, but Obama doesn’t have time. Yet, he can appear on Letterman and have a fundraiser with JayZ and Beyonce.

UNITED NATIONS - With the U.N. Security Council looking to avoid the bitter divisions that broke out before the war, France and Russia toned down objections to a new U.S. plan for ruling postwar Iraq, but appeared intent to seek changes to give the United Nations a stronger role.