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Mr de Menezes was not carrying a bag and was wearing only a denim jacket that was unlikely to conceal explosives. It later emerged that the officers' radios did not work underground.
"We have consistently pointed out that North Korea's missile programme is a concern that poses a threat to the region and the larger international community," the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said.
Now, with his poll numbers in a political ditch, the port debacle has contributed to a perception of weakness that has liberated Republicans who once would never have dared cross Bush.
WASHINGTON: The Dubai company whose impending takeover of terminal operations at several U.S. ports had generated a storm of opposition said Thursday that it would sell its American holdings to a U.S. company...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi forces, not American troops, would deal with a civil war if one erupts in Iraq and U.S. troop cuts remained possible despite a recent surge in violence, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday.
MORE than a third of the £53 million stolen during the Securitas depot robbery has been found, police said last night.
The next sunspot cycle will be 30-50% stronger than the last one and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (
The open source browser Firefox is to get anti-phishing technology courtesy of Google. The additional security is in the form of a plug in for Firefox.
The northern part of the Bering Sea is now becoming vulnerable to invasion by species from warmer, southern seas which could severely affect local wildlife.
The deadly H5N1 virus could spread to North America in the form of an outbreak in as little as six months, potentially causing an epidemic.
Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, the U.S. military's detainee operations spokesman, said that no date had been set for the handover but it would probably happen in two to three months.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Thursday the U.N. Security Council should issue a "vigorous response" to Iran's nuclear ambitions or the United States might have to consider other steps.
The flip side of the real estate boom. Years of rising home values have boosted property taxes steadily. Now, homeowners across the US are fighting back. "Real estate growth and real estate boom seem to be happening all over the country and [pro
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), said the plan fails to attack the problem of debt that he said is expected to grow by hundreds of billions of dollars. "I see it as a staying-the-course budget when the course is radically off the track with burgeoning d
A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, "God created man exactly how Bible describes it."
1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women. A baby girl born in the UK is likely to live to 81 - but if she is born in Swaziland, she is likely to die at 39. 21% of the world's managers are female.
Those who say Iraq is nothing like Vietnam have another guess coming, says retired Gen. William Odom. He lists striking similarities and asserts that only after it pulls out of Iraq can the US hope for international support to deal with anti-Western
Thousands of opposition supporters and human rights activists demonstrated in Nairobi to protest against raids on Kenya's oldest newspaper and its sister television station. It was the first time government shut down major media operations.
Up to 50 people have been seized from the offices of an Iraqi security firm by people wearing police uniforms. It is unclear whether they have been arrested or kidnapped. An interior ministry official said police had no involvement in the Baghdad
The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, rocked for a decade by sex scandals, made its biggest admission yet: 102 of its Dublin priests, 3.6%, are suspected of abusing children. Comes a week before the government probes into how authorities covered up
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said some Republicans are trying to create a "police state" to round up illegal immigrants. The House measure would make unlawful presence in the US a felony.
Ion Sancho, the Election Supervisor of Leon County, Florida who exposed a number of security flaws in Electronic Voting Machines made by the Diebold corp. has today launched legal "breach of contract" proceedings against the company.
Roll Call today ripped into a network of former and current aides to Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), who have aided technology interests in advancing their interests while earning $20 million in lobbying fees.
Only 40% of Americans believe Bush can manage the government effectively. 38% of Americans approving and 60% disapproving of Bush's job as president. Only 49% of Republicans now strongly approve of Bush. 44% of Americans say they strongly disappr
President Bush's plan to cut $36 billion from Medicare ran into stiff opposition from dozens of his fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives. Bush proposed trimming $36 billion over 5 years from Medicare,
Just $25 million of $2 billion in funding designated for states afflicted by Hurricane Katrina has been spent. “Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Congress scrambled to pass an emergency bill that gave states access to $2 billi
WASHINGTON (AFX) - North Korea's missile program has emerged a global 'threat', the United States said, after the Stalinist nation reportedly test-fired two missiles amid a stalemate in nuclear talks.
Valley mayors made a public plea to the Legislature, asking state leaders not to stop them from stuffing the pockets of mall developers and car dealers with what's supposed to be our money.
Over the next five months the first biometric chips will be placed in UK passports
