At WWDC 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the iPhone 4. Here's what you need to know about the new iPhone, from the two-axis gyroscope to the 'retina display' to the HD video camera.
Incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln faces a runoff in the Arkansas Democratic primary Tuesday. As a centrist, she has angered many Democrats, and women could be a key voting bloc.
The arrest of Mohammed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte on Sunday in the New Jersey terror plot was the second terror arrest at JFK airport in two months, perhaps by design.
With no consensus among experts on how much oil is pouring from the wellhead, it is hard, if not impossible, to assess the containment cap’s effectiveness.
A New York Times examination shows how Iran has used a succession of stratagems, including changing ships’ names and owners, to stay one step ahead of sanctions.
AP - The cap on the blown-out well in the Gulf is capturing a half-million gallons a day, or anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said Monday. But the hopeful report was offset by a warning that the farflung slick has broken up into hundreds and even thousands of patches of oil that may inflict damage that could persist for years.
AP - Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."
AP - Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, confesses to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week, a police spokesman says.
An Indian court has sentenced seven people to two years in prison in the Bhopal gas leak disaster that killed thousands of people more than 25 years ago. The Bhopal tragedy is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant on December 2 and 3 in 1984 settling over the surrounding areas. The number of dead is estimated to be between 15,000 and 20,000. The seven accused, including former Union Carbide chairman Keshub Mahindra, were sentenced for causing "death by negligence". Advocates for the victims say that as a result of the leak, Bhopal has an unusually high rate of illnesses including cancer, diabetes and a high incidence of children with birth defects.
At least four Palestinian militants dressed in diving gear were killed by the Israeli military this morning, as they prepared an attack on Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip according to both Israeli and Palestinian security officials. The incident comes just a week after nine Turkish activists were killed by Israeli commandos in international waters as their convoy of ships trying to deliver aid to Gaza was intercepted by the Israeli navy.
North Korea's communist state leader announced the country's number two man in power on Monday in what analysts say is an apparent move to engineer a gradual transition of power to his youngest son Jong-un. Kim Jong-il was present at a rare second parliamentary session to name his brother-in-law, Jang Sung-thaek, 64, to the post of vice chairman of the National Defense Commission.
Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian authorities said late Monday. He could be formally charged early Tuesday.
President Obama defended the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."
Oil from the BP drilling disaster is now impacting about 120 miles of coastline and it may take years to clean up, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said today.