Contracts worth about £1.25bn have been awarded for the construction of two aircraft carriers despite doubts over whether the project will still go ahead.
One of the authorities’ newest tactics for quelling dissent in Russia is confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software.
AP - Rites of remembrance and loss marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, familiar in their sorrow but observed for the first time Saturday in a nation torn over the prospect of a mosque near ground zero and the role of Islam in society.
AP - The section of gas pipeline that ruptured and exploded in a suburban San Francisco neighborhood, killing four and injuring nearly 60 others, was ranked as high risk because it ran through a highly populated area, state and federal authorities said Saturday.
AP - A man facing eviction over his hostile temper became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbors with a shotgun before shooting himself on Saturday.
In an abrupt switch, Iran delays release of American hiker Sarah Shourd, who has been held in Iranian prison for more than a year. She was scheduled to be released Saturday.
Former 9/11 Commission Chair Lee Hamilton has released a new terrorism threat assesement on homegrown terror in the United States. The report emerges ahead of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks.
Officials in Chile are granting the trapped miners' longstanding request for cigarettes. Rescuers are sending down two packs a day to be split between the miners who want to smoke, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer said it was hard to put into words how a beautiful neighborhood almost disappeared after a massive gas line explosion that left four people dead and five people missing.
Hours after thousands remembered those killed nine years ago at ground zero in New York, the debate over an Islamic center planned nearby played out at rival rallies.