With little agreement at the Bangkok UN climate meeting of 180 nations, the agenda for the crucial December Copenhagen conference is still up for heated debate.
Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics.
Mullah Muhammad Omar’s prospects seemed bleak in 2001. Now, he leads an insurgency that has gained ground in much of Afghanistan against better equipped U.S. and NATO forces.
AP - Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the heart of the nuclear-armed country's most powerful institution.
AP - The U.S. military trucked in supplies and marshaled helicopters and Navy ships as the Philippines struggled with the aftermath of back-to-back storms that have left more than 600 dead.
AP - Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.
Two people died and another 19 were injured at a resort near Sedona, Arizona, after spending up to two hours in a "sweatbox," a dome-like structure covered with tarps and blankets, authorities say. CNN affiliate KPHO reported that the illnesses occurred during a ceremony led by James Arthur Ray, author of the best-selling book "Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want."
At least four gunmen were holding 10 to 15 people hostage inside Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi today after attacking a checkpoint there, a top military spokesman said. Ten people died in the attack on the checkpoint when camouflaged gunmen in a minivan opened fire, a top military spokesman said.
The Saturday signing of an agreement normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia was delayed when the Armenian delegation objected to wording of an oral statement.