Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Pakistan visit will go beyond negotiating tactics ahead of this week's Afghanistan conference. It will aim to move the relationship beyond US pressure to squash Taliban havens.
Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri may not have been a defector at all. Some think he was a double agent sent to find out how much the US knows about Iran's nuclear program.
President Obama is picking up some unlikely supporters among evangelical leaders who support an overhaul that would include a path to legalization for illegal immigrants.
BP said that it hoped to leave its well in the Gulf of Mexico closed down until it is permanently plugged, but federal officials warned of a potential seep on the sea floor near the well.
The oil spill has added a new element of uncertainty to life on Louisiana’s bayous, which has long mixed beauty and wildlife with periods of natural destruction.
AP - A speeding express train collided with a passenger train at a station in eastern India early Monday, mangling the carriages and killing 56 people, railway police said.
AP - BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to be reopened, a contradiction that may be an effort by the oil giant to avoid blame if crude starts spewing again.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened high-level talks with Pakistan on Monday by announcing several new aid projects aimed at improving the country's water, energy and health sectors.
Imagine, for a moment, that the nearest bathroom to your house is half-a-mile away. And that, after dark, making the 20-minute trip would mean you cross paths with men out to rape any women they can find.
This, according to Amnesty International, is the daily – or nightly – reality for hundreds of thousands of women living in the slums of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Tests relating to the recently recapped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico have detected a "seep a distance from the well," Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a letter to a BP official.
South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to "get South Carolina and America back to work" in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.
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