A senior RAF officer warns MPs that cuts to military aircraft would leave the UK unable to respond to a 9/11-style terrorist attack in British airspace.
The 33 trapped Chilean miners are counting down the minutes to their rescue as the NASA-built escape capsule arrives at the rescue platform 622 meters underground.
Judge Virginia Phillips on Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to stop enforcing its 'don't ask, don't tell' ban on openly gay service members. Though experts say the ruling would likely be overturned on appeal, it is an important moment for the gay-rights movement.
Google and a financial firm have agreed to invest in a proposed $5 billion transmission system for offshore wind farms that could transform the East Coast’s electrical map.
Republicans have made new investments in at least 10 races nationwide, while Democrats have begun a strategy of triage to fortify their strongest candidates.
AP - The first of 33 men was rescued Tuesday night after 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine, pulled to fresh air and freedom at last in a missile-like escape capsule to the cheers of his family and countrymen.
AP - A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year "don't ask, don't tell" policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished.
AP - A strengthening Hurricane Paula roared toward Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday night as authorities ordered evacuations on two small islands.
The investigator charged with finding the killers of American David Hartley has been decapitated, his head stuffed in a suitcase and sent to the Mexican military.
Russia's Defense Ministry is in talks with a company to develop a range of inflatable decoy armaments they could place in battlefields to deceive the enemy about positions and lure them into attacking cheap replicas with their million-dollar rockets.
The relatives of Kenya's most prominent polygamist, Acentus Akuku have started a Facebook page to connect with each other. Nicknamed "Danger" because women found him irresistibly handsome Akuku Danger was in his late 90's when he passed away of natural causes earlier this month, having married more than 100 women in his lifetime and fathering nearly 200 children.
Now those children, grand-children, and even great-grandchildren are living all over the world. Akuku's grandson Nickson Mwanzo wants the family to come together for the burial, scheduled for December.
A police officer jailed on a first-degree murder charge in a two-state shooting rampage was on his computer at the time of shootings and could not have committed them, prosecutors said Tuesday evening.
The severed head of the lead Mexican investigator in the Falcon Lake case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, was delivered Tuesday in a suitcase to the Mexican military, Texas Rep. Aaron Pena told CNN.
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