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Munich - Iran poses a threat to Israel as well as to democratic states in the West, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany warned on Friday. The dimension of threat posed to Jews and the entire free world was being underestimated, Ch...
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd said his trip to New York this week is an opportunity to be part of a global response to the financial crisis. Mr Rudd is under fire from the Federal Opposition over his tri...
NEW YORK (AP) ― Even Yogi Berra knew this was the end.As baseball said farewell to Yankee Stadium, one of the game's most beloved players stood beneath the stands in a full vintage uniform. Now...
AP - Ecuadoreans voted Sunday on a new constitution that would significantly broaden leftist President Rafael Correa's powers and let him run for two more consecutive terms.
Punishment for 6 generals, 9 colonels ranged from letters to command removal Total number of officers was 17, but 15 of them were senior ranking They were disciplined for roles in erroneous shipment o...
A witness who acknowledged saving himself from a potential life sentence by testifying against O.J. Simpson conceded that his memory of the hotel room confrontation at the center of the case has not been the same since he suffered two heart attacks.
Wreckage believed to be plane missing since 2001 Authorities believe wreckage found on a mountainside in the San Bernardino National Forest is the remains of a plane missing for seven years.
Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman skipped Senate Democrats' weekly caucus luncheon Tuesday and will not attend them for a while after angering many Democrats by criticizing their presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
(AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)Singer John Legend greets fans after a rally Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, on the campus of Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. Legend, a Springfield, Ohio native, encouraged B...
Reuters - With a month to go before the U.S. election on November 4, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden canceled campaign events for another two days on Sunday after the death of his mother-in-law.
Hurricane Ike has hit 70 after two bodies were found near where the storm came ashore.A search team made the discovery Saturday on an island off the devastated resort area of
A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Tuesday to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States.
AP - Lots of youngsters on your street? Watch out: Flu may strike your community sooner and harder than it hits the hip singles neighborhood down the road.
NEW YORK (AP) ― Today is Tuesday, September 23rd, the 267th day of 2008. There are 99 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: One hundred years ago, on Sept. 23, 1908, one of baseb...
"This is the president's own party. I don't think a president has been repudiated so strongly by the congressional wing of his own party in a long time." — Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, after President Bush's $700 billion bid to combat the worst financial crisis in decades was suddenly sidetracked by fellow Republicans in the House.
(Profiled? Silvio Torres-Saillant, a Syracuse University professor, says he has been stopped by Border Patrol agents at a bus station several times this year / Michelle Gabel, USA TODAY)
Much of the increase was driven by women realizing that they needed to attain power rather than just lobby for change, said women who spoke at a ceremony for the study's release.
Reuters - After hours of wrangling, OPEC on
Wednesday agreed to revise its complex output targets and said
the move would effectively cut supplies by half a million
barrels per day (bpd).