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London police faked vital evidence to cover up their fatal role in the shooting of an innocent Brazilian, mistaken for a suicide bomber. The blame would have been pinned on senior police commanders leaving them open to murder charges
Barely eight months after taking office, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is fulfilling the fears of some staffers who looked askance at the hawkish former Pentagon number two's appointment.
Massive flows of capital from the emerging to the developed world are unsustainable and risk damaging both poor and rich countries. The U.S. absorbs roughly 70 percent of excess global savings. The danger to the world economy is that when the inflows
While the sun shines on the economy, influential voices warned its leaders to make essential repairs now in case of storms ahead. The weak link is the over-stretched US consumer, mortgaged to the hilt in a booming housing market. With jacking up inte
Scientists have discovered an undersea deposit of frozen methane just off the Southern California coast, but whether it can be harnessed as a potential energy source is unknown.
The Bush administration wants to restart a controversial program to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a technology abandoned by the United States decades ago as a costly security risk
The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat.
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world
Even though Ms. Rogers received a refund after she confronted the seller, eBay refused to remove hundreds of listings for identical "Weiss" pieces. It said it had no responsibility for the fakes because it was nothing more than a marketplac
NOT long after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, a top aide to Paul Bremer, then head of the American occupation authority, excitedly explained that Iraq had just become the front line in Washington's effort to neutrali
Congress has granted unusual authority for the Pentagon to spend as much as $200 million of its own budget to aid foreign militaries, a break with the traditional practice of channeling foreign military assistance through the State Department.
Iran says it will launch medium-range missiles if attacked, and accused Britain and the USof arming rebels in its south. Shahab-3 missiles place Israel, US bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq within their range.
The Americans have warned India that its nuclear deal signed during their Prime Minister's trip to Washington will die in Congress if it doesn't back the US on Iran. From India's perspective that's bare-knuckle diplomacy at its worst.
THE drab compound that houses the Iranian embassy in Pyongyang is the focus of intense scrutiny by diplomats and intelligence services who believe that North Korea is negotiating to sell the Iranians plutonium that would hand Tehran a rapid route to
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. Stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the office of the vice president, who wan
Every web move you make is recorded for ever. And the Chinese government for one is getting wise to the potential, says John Lanchester (Watch Epic 2014, a report from the year 2014)
ABC News Co-Anchor Bob Woodruff and a Cameraman Injured in IED Attack in Iraq
For months, the young Shiite couple could not decide whether to move from Dora, a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood and one of Baghdad's most dangerous. After death threats, the murder of a neighbor and the birth of their first child, they decided i
The NRA wants legislation specifying that people have no duty to retreat from an attacker before using deadly force. About half of all states have similar rules on the books. But in Wyoming, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is taking a stan
An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. Their research proves the current administration has been dishones
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said she was considering running for office against Sen. Diane Feinstein while she waited for the California lawmaker to back a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), a co-sponsor of the 2005 joint resolution, has confirmed that Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R- TN) will attempt to bring the controversial legislation to the floor this year for a full vote.
Bucklew also hailed Burke, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. "This is a bad thing, but he certainly has a past he can be proud of." That past, and his cooperation with investigators looking into a bribery scam at SOCom, helped Burke get a
32 people ranging in age from 19 to 81 will begin federal trials for peacefully walking onto a military base in protest of a controversial Army training school. Each person faces up to 6 months in prison and a $5,000 fine for this act of nonviolent c
A leaked letter from Mr Burnham indicates that the chips will use radio frequencies to allow "contactless" reading of the card by special scanners. Receivers could easily be boosted to receive signals from much further away.
Mexico's foreign secretary suggested Thursday that uniformed men using a military-style Humvee to help drug traffickers on the border could have been U.S. soldiers or criminals disguised as Mexican troops.
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who rose to national prominence as the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, appears likely to face a serious primary challenge this year that could measure the depth of his party's discontent over the Iraq
Thompson spoke recently with Computerworld about e-voting reliability. Diebold declined to make anyone available for an interview on the topic, but a spokesman dismissed the concerns raised by Thompson. Diebold’s response follows Thompson’s co
President Bush said he has exclusive authority over a broad range of issues — including forbidding White House officials to testify before Congress about the government's Hurricane Katrina response and ordering warrantless electronic surveillance
Afghanistan may need foreign troops for another 5-10 years to combat terrorism and insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said. NATO has fielded 9,000 troops across Kabul, and 6,000 in Taliban strongholds. The US has 19,000 which hunts down insurgents.
