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Prosecutors said Asher confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped, and investigators testified they did not save their notes. Asher's lawyer, Stephanie Page, said there was nothing to prove Lord was even dead — no body, no b
If Osama bin Laden and the radical Islamist movement embodied by Hamas possess a pantheon of heroes, a Sudanese intellectual with a British education will be among them. Hassan al-Turabi built Africa's first Islamist state when he dominated Su
Nigerian insurgents released four kidnapped foreign contractors but immediately vowed to press home a series of violent attacks against the country's key oil and gas industries.
Why put up costly cell phone towers in thinly populated areas, when a few balloons would do? In North Dakota, former Gov. Ed Schafer is backing a plan to loft wireless network repeaters on balloons high above the state to fill gaps in cellular covera
Hamas suggested yesterday that the Islamic group could create a Palestinian army that would include its militant wing -- responsible for scores of deadly attacks on Israelis -- in the aftermath of its crushing victory in parliamentary elections.
India considers the Syrian venture to be of enormous strategic significance for the value of underlying assets and the role it will play in cementing China-India partnership for acquiring oil and gas equities in third world countries.
Americans' personal savings rate dipped into negative territory in 2005, something that hasn't happened since the Great Depression. Consumers depleted their savings to finance the purchases of cars and other big-ticket items.
Exxon Mobil Corp. posted record profits for any US company— $10.71 billion for the 4th quarter and $36.13 billion for the year— as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from high oil and natural-gas prices and solid demand for
A federal judge plans to decide this week whether she will allow Israeli intelligence agents to take the witness stand in a Chicago courtroom and testify using aliases and wearing disguises.
Halliburton said it plans to sell a minority stake in its engineering and construction unit KBR through an initial public offering. KBR has generated controversy over how it became the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq.
US Jewish leaders are considering providing financial support to 2 former AIPAC employees on trial for their entanglement in a high-profile affair involving the possession and transfer of classified information.
Despite protests from other countries, the United States is expanding a top-secret effort to kill suspected terrorists with drone-fired missiles as it pursues an increasingly decentralized Al Qaeda, U.S. officials say.
The Bush administration will press governments around the world - including in Europe, Asia and the Middle East - to sever economic ties and freeze most aid to the Palestinian territories until Hamas rejects violence and accepts Israel's right to
Al-Qaida No. 2 man al-Zawahri said in a videotape that President Bush was a “butcher” and a “failure” because of a deadly US airstrike in Pakistan targeting him, and he threatened a new attack on the US. “In seeking to kill my humble self and four of
A human pathogen called the adenovirus Ad-37 causes obesity in chickens. Previous research found that 2 adenoviruses, Ad-36 and Ad-5, cause obesity in animals. Ad-36 has associated with human obesity in previous studies, and Ad-37 might be, too,
The people behind the X Prize that kick-started personal space travel are planning prizes in a variety of non-space fields, from automobile technology and genome research to nanotechnology and education. "... for cutting through the bureaucracie
Primary care—the basic medical care that people get when they visit their doctors for routine physicals and minor problems—could fall apart in the US without immediate reforms, the American College of Physicians said.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who took a leading role in the Terry Schiavo case, said it taught him that Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions.
Iraqi and U.N. health officials said Monday a 15-year-old girl who died this month was a victim of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the first confirmed case of the disease in the Middle East.
The new launch time is February 8 at 5:30 p.m. Arizona time with Feb. 9 as a backup day. We will actually be ready to launch earlier, but are planning to spend extra time reviewing and double-checking all vehicle systems. Following the problem on De
U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) announced this morning in Providence that he will vote against the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. In a statement this morning, the Rhode Island senator said he was "greatly con
During the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when al Qaeda leaders were pinned down by US forces, Tabarak sacrificed himself to engineer their escape. He headed toward the Pakistani border while making calls on Osama bin Laden's satellite pho
The practice of providing news organizations with staged photos of events involving the president has become a regular occurrence with the Bush Administration. Each of these events were closed to news photographers. White House-manufactured images i
Tony Blair knew that George Bush was only "going through the motions" of offering support for a second UN resolution in the run-up to the Iraq war, it was claimed last night.
A California congressman who accepted campaign cash from disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and used his sports box for a fundraiser interceded on behalf of 2 American Indian tribes that were represented by Abramoff's firm
New Orleans is about to be struck by another disaster— not a natural one like Katrina, but by the human disaster of modern urban planning. The problem with urban planners is two fold. First, they work for the wrong people, the government, rather than
Car bombs exploded in quick succession Sunday near four Christian churches and the office of the Vatican envoy, killing 3 people and raising new concerns about sectarian tensions. At least 17 other people were killed in other violence around the coun
Hundreds of available trucks, boats, planes and federal officers went unused in search and rescue efforts immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit because FEMA failed to give them missions. FEMA called off search and rescue 3 days after the storm beca
The six-day World Social Forum wrapped up in Caracas with US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan calling President George W. Bush a "terrorist" during an event hosted by Venezuela's leftist leader.
