Saudi prince says his country takes control of mountain away from Yemeni rebels Saudi Arabian forces have taken control of a mountain straddling ...
Taiwan is expected to forge an agreement on financial cooperation with China "soon", in yet another sign of evolving ties between the two ...
ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling attend the G20 finance ministers family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland. G20 finance ministers have gathered in ...
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. ...
Hovering on extinction's edge, West Africa's last giraffes make a surprising comeback A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals ...
At least 10 people including a local mayor were killed and 20 others wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber blew up a car in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, officials and police said. "The suicide bomber came in a car and exploded it ...
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber blew up a car outside the home of a local mayor in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, an official said. "The toll is 10 dead and 20 injured," ...
The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine. The journalist wrote that during meetings with current ...
TAWANG, India (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on Sunday to a remote Indian region also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tensions between the Asian giants. The Dalai Lama arrived by helicopter ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is wrapping up deliberations on war strategy in Afghanistan and is considering final Pentagon options that include sending about 30,000 more troops, officials said on Saturday. A deployment of that size would be less than the ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 7: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leaves after a press conference after a vote on healthcare on Capitol Hill November 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives passed the healthcare reform bill 220 to 215 ...
Bloggers attempt to make some sense of Maine's gay marriage repeal Why Maine voters repealed a gay marriage law Tuesday when polling favored backers continues to baffle analysts. Several theories have been offered. Gay marriage proponents have been hit hard by the ...
