On Sunday, the moderate foreign minister and vice chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeir, was chosen as the party's candidate for chancellor in next year's federal election.
AP - President Bush will keep roughly the same number of U.S. forces in Iraq through the end of the year and pull about 8,000 troops home by February, a drawdown that's both slower and smaller than long anticipated.
AP - Hurricane Ike roared down Cuba's spine Monday and toward the island's densely populated capital of fragile historic buildings after ravaging homes, forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate and killing at least four. U.S. residents from Florida to Texas braced for Ike's next wallop.
AP - The United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after 9/11, a forthcoming independent study concludes. And a House Democrats' report says the Bush administration has missed one opportunity after another to improve the nation's security.
For decades, Sarah Palin went to church with people who spoke in tongues and believed in faith healing and the "end times." Her former pastor says the Pentecostal past of the GOP vice presidential nominee may now be being downplayed to avoid misunderstanding. But the pastor, Tim McGraw, says he's sure religion influences Palin's policy-making.
Residents of Galveston, Texas, should buy in supplies before Hurricane Ike moves into the Gulf of Mexico, the city's mayor urged tonight. The storm was downgraded after it hit Cuba but is expected to strengthen on its way toward the United States. A hurricane watch for the Florida Keys has been lifted, but the storm could still hit anywhere from Louisiana to Mexico.
Three men charged in an alleged plot to explode bombs on trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States and Canada in 2006 were convicted by a British court Monday of conspiracy to murder -- a plot that led to tightened airline security around the world. Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain and Abdulla Ali will be sentenced at a later date.
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