The N.Y.P.D. has begun to test thousands of drug evidence samples after a review found that sloppy work in its laboratory could have skewed drug evidence.
The surprising defeat of a referendum to accelerate President Hugo Chávez?s socialist-inspired revolution has given new energy to his long-suffering opposition.
Syria's ambassador to the United States says Syria welcomes the apparent revival of interest in pursuing a Syrian-Israeli peace track coming out of the Annapolis Mideast conference, along with the Palestinian-Israeli track the meeting focused on.
AP - President Bush and congressional Democrats are locked in a struggle over Iraq spending, with neither side budging and each calculating that their argument will be the one to resonate with voters.
AP - A new U.S. intelligence report concludes that Iran's nuclear weapons development program has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pressure a stark contrast to the conclusions U.S. spy agencies drew just two years ago.
AP - A British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a writing project arrived home Tuesday after being pardoned and said she was "very upset to think that I might have caused offense to people."
Saying she was "very sorry" to leave Sudan, a British teacher convicted of insulting religion there has arrived in London after President Omar al-Bashir granted her a pardon. Gillian Gibbons earlier apologized for any distress caused when she allowed her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
A Missouri prosecutor on Monday said no charges would be sought in the case of a teen who hanged herself last year after chatting on MySpace, although he said adults should have prevented the tragedy.