David Cameron will use his conference speech to warn of the impact of spending cuts - after apologising for not including changes to child benefit in the party's election manifesto.
Officials are linking a recent increase in US drone missile attacks in Pakistan to efforts to disrupt a suspected al-Qaeda plot to attack European targets.
At the first ever White House community college summit Tuesday, President Obama announces new grants to help community colleges prepare Americans for new jobs.
GOP strategist Karl Rove is sending big money to Republicans in close Election 2010 races. But two campaign watchdogs are asking the IRS to investigate his tax-exempt 'social welfare' group.
The Pentagon and its NATO allies are looking at how to improve their defenses against a cyberwar, but the basic question of how to define a cyberattack is complicating efforts.
Dozens of relations and allies of President Hamid Karzai have taken powerful positions in government and business, allowing them to shape policy or financially benefit from it.
New York City’s child welfare agency revealed a damning timeline of events leading up to the death of a 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn who weighed just 18 pounds when she died.
AP - A deep-pocketed alliance with ties to top Republicans Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie is pumping more than $4 million into key Senate races in a single week of advertising, a crucial infusion to counter a surge in Democratic Party spending as Election Day draws near.
AP - The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.
AP - Two explosions killed nine people and wounded two dozen others in Kandahar, the second day of deadly blasts in the southern Afghan city where Taliban insurgents are fighting back against U.S. and Afghan forces pushing into areas long held by insurgents.
An Israeli soldier doing a belly dance around a blindfolded Palestinian woman has angered Palestinians and prompted an investigation by the Israeli army. It is the latest video or photo to appear on social web sites to embarrass the Israeli army.
Dr. William Petit, whose wife and daughters were killed in their Connecticut home in 2007, says he re-lived the day of the slayings in court because his family was "destroyed by evil."
Mexican authorities are searching for an American boater reported to have been killed by pirates on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, police said.