Armed men attacked 2 foreign oil facilities in southern Nigeria, and both shut down production following the assaults in the restive, oil-rich region. Royal Dutch Shell began evacuating families of foreign workers, citing worsening security.
President Robert Mugabe said his government will not tolerate dissent created "under the guise of freedom of expression." He said government opponents were bent on creating anarchy and pushing a British attempt to topple his government.
Fewer storms and natural disasters have made 2006 the least expensive year for insurers in almost a decade and the third-cheapest in the past 20 years.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Jakarta's busy international airport introduced an iris scanner system on Thursday aimed at business travelers willing to pay around $200 per year to avoid long immigration lines.
The movie is better than anyone ever expected. Amazing that the franchise still had life in it, especially when the Hollywood studios were telling Sylvester Stallone not to embarrass himself by bringing the character out of retirement for a 6th bout.
The fossil bones of what may have been Europe's largest animal ever, a new type of dinosaur, have been discovered in Spain. Discovery of the sauropod, estimated to have weighed between 40 and 48 tons, is reported in Friday's issue of the jour
Eight Marines were charged Thursday in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians last year during a bloody, door-to-door sweep in the town of Haditha that came after one of their comrades was killed by a roadside bomb.
Here is a man who started out by advocating individual liberty and private capitalism while decrying left wing socialist trespasses against them—only to betray everybody and everything that America is about.
MADD came under fire last week, after a Toronto newspaper reported only 19 cents of every dollar raised goes to victim services and the fight against drunk driving.
The FBI has released the last 10 documents from its secret files on slain Beatle John Lennon that had been withheld for 25 years on the ground they could prompt "military retaliation" against the United States, campaigners for their release
In an evolutionary twist, Flora the Komodo dragon has managed to become pregnant all on her own without any male help. She is carrying seven baby Komodo dragons.
Numerous examples of how life in this city - which lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - is fast becoming less penetrable and more gerrymandered. As the boundaries around Jerusalem harden, Palestinians are being shut off not only cu
President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them. [King's man.]
Will Rogers said that the first thing you do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. All the signs out of the nation's capital indicate that President Bush–who's in a very deep hole of his own making in Iraq–wants a bigger shovel.
Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war? The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by Western policy, appears well and truly over. His power replaced with rule by civil war, apparently now the American administ
At this time last year, the Pentagon was hinting that troop levels in Iraq would be reduced. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaimed, "...as more Iraqi units stand up, we'll be able to bring our troops down and turn over that te
An interview with Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, which earlier this year came to power with a large majority in the free and democratic election in Palestine.
A former lawmaker already indicated on bribery allegations has been charged with taking more than $800,000 in consulting fees from contractors working for a state Medicare program, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
A South Dakota newspaper has published a database of every CCW permit holder in South Dakota prior to the passage of a state law designed to seal such data from the general public. Of course this wouldn't be an issue if individuals hadn't all
An 84-year-old man who is accused of removing his elderly wife from a nursing home and taking her to Florida was released from jail on a personal bond today by a District Court judge.
Current auto license plate recognition systems outfitted on patrol vehicles are capable of automatically scanning 3000 vehicles per hour - making suspects of all who pass before its cameras. This is just the beginning though as plans are being made t
The ban thus forces people who want to eat in restaurants to pay higher prices even if they would prefer to pay less and take the risk of an increased likelihood of heart disease.