Angry crowds singled out and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance at one of Australia's iconic beaches as racial tensions boiled over into mob violence. Police were powerless to quell the violence, resorting to batons and capsicum spray to
8 million new immigrants entered the United States since 2000 -- some 3.7 million of them illegal aliens. That's two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.
President Bush's administration is drawing up plans to carry out the biggest overhaul of the US foreign aid apparatus in more than 40 years in an attempt to assert more political control over international assistance.
This morning, Rational Review reports the untimely death of (Bill) R.W. Bradford, publisher of Liberty magazine. He was 58 and had fought heroically against cancer for many months.
A cyberspace security responsibility was newly included in the mission statement. The new mission statement, intended to set the current and future direction of the Air Force, reads: "The mission of the Air Force is to deliver sovereign options
In a move unthinkable in the bloody run-up to the last election, guerrillas in the western insurgent heartland of Anbar province say they are even prepared to protect voting stations from fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in
Reggie Bush took slow, deliberate steps to the podium and began his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech with a huge sigh of relief and a hand over his heart. He may have been the only one in the packed room with any doubt about the outcome. Once again,
A Chinese official who ordered security forces to open fire on protesters last week has been arrested, state media said, ending a news blackout on the clash but denying claims that scores were killed.
Iran on Sunday offered the United States a share in building a new nuclear power plant in an apparent effort to curb U.S. opposition to its atomic program.
European Space Agency (ESA) officials have said that European countries remained interested in a Russian plan to build a new crew-carrying spaceship known as the Clipper.
Greg Kelly of Fox News is pursuing a story no one else seems to want to touch. "Twice last month in speeches to military audiences, the president attacked Democrats and fired back at their accusations that pre-war intelligence was manipulated by
On Wednesday in Washington, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the former House majority leader, will be the guest star at a fund-raiser for Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks' re-election campaign.
Israel's armed forces have been ordered by prime minister Ariel Sharon to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.
The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news for the group's radio stations or spots for friendly television outlets
"What does degrading mean? Do you not want to degrade a terrorist, not hurt them, but degrade them, if they are going to take out your family, if they are going to assassinate you? That's the question that is being worked out," he said.
The European Union secretly allowed the US to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a unpublished document, contradicting repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by
After documents obtained by The New York Times raised questions about lobbying by ExpressTrak and its lawyers to obtain the $8.3 million for Amtrak, Congressman Knollenberg said he would work to reverse his legislation.
An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies.
He spent nearly 3 years in the CIA's network of 'black sites'. He underwent the strappado torture
Americans increased their household debt at an annual rate of 11.6% in the third quarter, the fastest growth in 18 years, the Federal Reserve said. Total outstanding debt in the household sector rose to $11 trillion.
Day after day, reports of suspicious activity filed from military bases and other defense installations throughout the US flow into the Counterintelligence Field Activity, a 3-year-old Pentagon agency whose size and budget remain classified.
The United States is rapidly losing its influence in the Southeast Asia region to China, thanks to an overly narrow focus on terrorism and a propensity to place bilateral ties above multilateral relationships
How Japanese-Americans were interned during the World War II is widely known, but few Americans realise hundreds of Alaskan natives suffered a similar fate, being forced from homes on the Aleutian and Pribilof islands when Japan's forces invaded
An Iraqi general formerly in charge of special forces said he witnessed horrific scenes of torture in Iraqi prisons and accused a Shiite militia of being responsible. "It was horrific. Thousands of detainees, often teenagers, beaten, burned, rec
Some agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been frustrated by what they see as the Justice Department's reluctance to let them demand records and to use other far-ranging investigative measures in terrorism cases, newly disclosed e-m
"I know what happened. When it happened. How it happened. I guided the French intelligence in this affair. I made the decisions. I communicated and exchanged with the Americans all information concerning this case."
More than a year before President Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service began repeatedly warning the CIA there was no evidence to support the allegati
Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, has died. Murtha reloaded?
There's more to this story than meets the eye. Behind NTP Inc. that is suing RIM, is a tall, skinny, entrepreneurial Chicago inventor, Thomas J. Campana Jr., who died before knowing how much his case might rock the wireless world.