Security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants are regrouping as a smaller but still lethal insurgency, threatening the relative calm in most of Iraq.
AP - Stepping onto the world stage for the first time in his two-month presidency, Barack Obama is holding face-to-face talks with the leaders of the two nations — Russia and China — most aggressively challenging the U.S. position atop the global order.
AP - A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles Wednesday at an alleged hide-out connected to a Taliban leader who has threatened to attack Washington, killing 12 people and wounding several others, officials said.
AP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
Experts watched warily Wednesday as a worm infecting millions of computers activated itself as predicted on April 1. But fears the Conficker.c worm would cause chaos have so far proven unfounded, with no reports of major problems. Unlike viruses, worms self propagate, spreading by networks. But just what is that threat? Computer experts acknowledge they don't know for sure.
As world leaders arrived for Thursday's G-20 summit on the state of the global economy, London prepared on Wednesday for what police warned could be "unprecedented" mass protests by anti-capitalist and climate change campaigners.
Associates of convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff knew he was scamming his clients but joined in anyway because of the big money they could make, a securities investigator testified in a sworn affidavit for a Connecticut court.