India's prime minister called for a "pan Asian" free trade area embracing major economies to drive the region's growth. "We are linking India into a web of partnerships with the countries of the region through free trade and co
You'd think the Apr. 26 oil summit in Qatar would have been an occasion for the industry to celebrate. The world's top energy executives were there, and they could all point to record profits and record demand. But rejoice?
Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital. Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired 7 rocket shells con
[You didn't think you were going to the moon without government, did you?] NASA said it is sponsoring a $2 million contest to spur aerospace designers to build and demonstrate versatile rockets that may one day support a lunar mission.
For Wesley Britton, signing up to have his irises scanned at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport was an easy decision. Being able to avoid long passport lines can often mean the difference between making or missing a connecting flight.
The US insisted when it signed the International Convention Against Torture treaty that it did not apply to armed conflicts, excluding its activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the “war on terror”, from the Convention’s scope in US eyes.
Federal prosecutors will retry an ice cream vendor on charges that he lied to the
FBI about his son's attendance at a terrorist training camp, authorities announced.
Dick Cheney can talk the talk. He gets it, he really does. It's just to bad he has to hide out in Lithuania when he speaks the truth. Americans today really need to hear what he has to say, and is doubtfull he'll repeat these words at home
Venezuela's populist president Hugo Chávez has been accused of using his country's oil wealth to help elect like-minded leaders in Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. But there's been little evidence, until now.
"I understand if I was in civilian clothes. But with what we were wearing and what we were doing......," he said, noting that "we had a flag with us."
(And why can they do this. BECAUSE THEY CAN)
Members of the Minuteman Project set off from Los Angeles on a cross-country trip that they hope will be a counterpoint to the immigrants-rights rallies that have lately flooded the streets of American cities.
Florida legislators are scheduled to vote on whether to allow men to escape child-support payments and other legal responsibilities if DNA tests show they are not the fathers of children born to their wives or partners.
Democratic leaders, increasinly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during the first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back back of the Republican prescription drug
As for Goss' replacement, President Bush has settled on Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. Hayden, 61, is the principal deputy to Negroponte and former director of the super-secret National Security Agency.
Gold production was up 24 per cent, while operating costs dropped 15 per cent. The mine extracted more than 24,000 ounces of gold and was in solid production when the disaster struck.
A British military helicopter apparently was hit by a missile and crashed in Basra, triggering a confrontation in which jubilant Iraqis pelted British troops with stones, hurled firebombs and shouted slogans in support of a radical Shiite Muslim cler
A top US counterterrorism official said that parts of Pakistan are a "safe haven" for militants and Osama bin Laden was more likely to be hiding there than in Afghanistan. "Has Pakistan done enough? I think the answer is no. I have con
After the last egg of a suddenly famous family of bald eagles vanished before a worldwide Internet audience, a Canadian conservationist has begun setting up more wildlife Internet cameras.
The local elections for England, held once every four years, turned out to be as bad as the ruling Labor Party could imagine, with results showing on Friday that Blair's Labor has lost over 300 councilors whereas the opposition Conservative Party
Authorities boarded an American Airlines plane and detained 5 men after it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport. The plane was bound from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when an air marshal notified authorities of 5 men he considere
A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine is profiting from illegal child pornography. Jeffery Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature, said Google has paid links to web sites containing pornography i
President George Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III".
As if rallying fading public support for keeping US troops in a disintegrating Iraq and preparing for a possible military attack on Iran were not enough, some influential hawks are now promoting a confrontational stance against Russia and China
Turkey has massed troops along its border with Iraq to increase pressure on the US and the new government in Baghdad to act against a growing threat from Kurdish rebels based in Northern Iraq.
Jones’s explosive paper is accessible on his web page (physics.byu.edu) and will be published in a forthcoming book by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott. Reading Jones’ paper on-line allows the reader to review the photographic/video evidence.
[This is going to be fun!] The Army warned an anti-war group of former U.S. Military Academy cadets to stop using the words "West Point" in its name, saying they are trademarked. A co-founder of West Point Graduates Against the War countere
Over objections by the Food and Drug Administration, Nevadans will be able to buy prescription drugs from Canada over the Internet starting next week, a spokesman for Gov. Kenny Guinn said.