Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday he's optimistic that a UN investigator would examine claims that Syria, Iran, and others were interfering in Iraq's affairs.
The Taliban attacked the Federal Investigation Agency, two police academies in Lahore, and a police station in the northwest, part of a weeklong onslaught that could strengthen military's resolve against the militants.
A wave of recent attacks shows that the Taliban, Al Qaeda and militant groups are tightening an alliance aimed at bringing down the Pakistani state, officials and analysts say.
The group has been enmeshed in urban politics for years, and its relationship with the Democratic Party has always been as productive as it has been uneasy.
AP - A 6-year-old boy was found hiding in a cardboard box in his family's garage Thursday after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles through the sky on live television.
AP - When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate — and perhaps more than one Republican — will support legislation overhauling the nation's health care system, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee predicted Thursday.
AP - Social Security recipients won't get a cost-of-living increase next year for the first time in more than a third of a century, and that could boost President Barack Obama's plan to send seniors another round of $250 payments before the congressional elections.
After scouring northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a now-infamous Mylar balloon for dozens of miles and interviewing his big brother numerous times, local and federal authorities ended their search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene where it began -- at his house.
At least one member of the jury that sentenced Cameron Todd Willingham to death in the arson homicides of his three children says she is struggling with the idea that she might have convicted an innocent man.
An investigation into the deaths of two people in a "sweat lodge" at an Arizona retreat last week has been elevated from an accidental death investigation to a homicide inquiry, Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh said. "We believe there are indications that it was not accidental," he said. The dead and injured were attending a program by self-help author James Arthur Ray, authorities said.
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