The U.S. accused North Korea in 2002 of pursuing parallel paths to a nuclear bomb, using plutonium and uranium. Now, U.S. officials are admitting doubts on the uranium enrichment program.
BAGHDAD–Our convoy leaves the relative security of the so-called Green Zone planning to visit a series of joint U.S.-Iraqi reconstruction projects–including an elementary school–in the city's Ghazaliya district.
BAGHDAD–The vendors along the streets of downtown Baghdad tend to cluster their shops according to the wares they have to offer. One street has appliance store after appliance store; another a line of repair shops, and so on.
Helen Mirren's Best Actress Oscar this week catapults "mature" female leads to a lofty new perch. Mirren was not the only 50-plus actress to be nominated–Mirren is 61–she was one of three women over 50 among five nominees. The others included 57-year-old Meryl Streep, who played the Cruella De Vil of the fashion industry in The Devil Wears Prada, and Dame Judi Dench, a ripe 72, who played a villainous English schoolteacher in Notes on a Scandal.
AP - Wall Street resumed its plunge after a one-day reprieve as investors, nervous about the impending release of key economic data, took their cues Thursday from declining overseas markets.
AP - A U.S. Army helicopter made a "hard landing" in northern Iraq on Thursday, but the military said the problem was mechanical and not the result of hostile fire.
AP - North Korea's No. 2 leader pledged his country's commitment Thursday to giving up its nuclear program amid intensifying diplomacy aimed at implementing Pyongyang's pledge to disarm.
More than a dozen tornadoes were reported last night and early today in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Officials are trying to confirm the tornado reports and assess the damage as the powerful storm front heads across the Plains toward the Southeast. The National Weather Service declared the storm's projected path a high-risk area, "which is a pretty rare forecast for us," one meteorologist said.
A U.S. Army helicopter made what the military called a "hard landing" Thursday morning south of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, injuring two pilots.