Victims of the floods and political observers say the disaster has provided another deeply painful reminder of the anemic health of the country’s civilian government.
Seeking to protect its secret recipe, the maker of Thomas’ English muffins has gone to court to prevent a former executive from going to work for a rival.
AP - The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude began gushing from the sea floor. But those who harvest, process and sell the catch face a new crisis — convincing wary consumers it's not only delicious, but also safe.
AP - Three NATO service members — at least two of them American — killed in recent attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military coalition said Sunday.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro warned today of imminent nuclear war and said the world's fate was in President Barack Obama's hands, as he addressed the Cuban National Assembly for the first time since falling ill four years ago.
Bibi, the young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband, is traveling to the United States in an attempt to have her face reconstructed.
The husband of a woman charged with aiding her son in his escape from an Arizona prison had a warning Saturday for his stepson. "I'll shoot you," Jack Washburn said on KTVK, "and serve my time."
At a time of increased violence and political intransigence in Iraq, the U.S. military on Saturday formally handed over control of combat operations to Iraqi security forces.
Four Iraqi police officers were killed and eight others wounded during a raid at a home in southwestern Baghdad, Interior Ministry officials said Saturday.
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