Skyrocketing health care prices have led a growing number of countries to follow Britain?s example when asking the hardest of questions: How much is life worth?
AP - Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday in Washington's effort to ease tensions in the region after a three-day terrorist attack that left 171 people dead in Mumbai.
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness Tuesday to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia claimed victory Tuesday in a U.S. Senate runoff, killing Democratic hopes of gaining enough seats to halt filibusters. "You have delivered tonight a strong message to the world," Chambliss told supporters. Democrat Jim Martin had captured enough votes in November's three-person race to force the runoff.
India has blamed "elements from Pakistan" for the attacks that killed 179 people in Mumbai and is renewing demands for its neighbor to hand over wanted militant leaders. "The government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this outrage," a statement from the government said.
With Mumbai's Chabad House under siege last week, Indian nanny Sandra Samuel found Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, shot dead, lying on the ground with their son crying over them. Samuel picked up 2-year-old Moshe Holtzberg and made a dash for the exits, almost daring the gunmen to shoot, according to a family spokesman.