President Hamid Karzai forced two of his three top security officials to resign over their failure to prevent attacks on a peace council, officials said.
Hungary’s budget deficit is about one-half that of Greece, but its new leader is finding it impossible to satisfy both voters and international investors.
AP - A tornado unleashed a "war zone" of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and threatened to do more damage Sunday as it hit the Northeast.
AP - A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government's point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.
Joran van der Sloot, the lone suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, faces an "extremely rude awakening" in Peru, where he has just been jailed as a suspect in the murder of a young Peruvian woman, a top international lawyer said today.
The federal government's response manager to the Gulf oil disaster says BP has made progress, but cautioned it was too early to call the effort a success.