Conservatives snapped up a Labour seat in Norwich North in a Friday by-election. Brown has turned for help to self-made billionaire Alan Sugar, putting him in the House of Lords - and naming him ???enterprise czar.???
US envoy Richard Holbrooke Thursday defended the military, which has been launching 'softening up' operations in South Waziristan for more than a month.
Christine A. Varney, and some senior lawmakers, are preparing to rein in several major industries but are finding resistance from Obama administration officials.
AP - A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds.
AP - Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying "in the end, this is not about me at all."
AP - Less than a month before Afghanistan's presidential election, Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests attacked a provincial capital Saturday, triggering gunbattles that killed seven militants. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said it is "extraordinary" to hold a presidential election during a war.
It was not long ago that banks were trying to lure consumers with some eye-popping deals in what was a fierce battle for deposits. But times have changed. CNNMoney reports that over the past year interest rates offered by banks on a wide variety of accounts have steadily declined, only to sink to their lowest levels in years in recent weeks.
Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border on Saturday and told supporters he would keep fighting to return to power. On Friday he defied threats of arrest -- and a cordon of Honduran troops -- and walked across the border from Nicaragua and stayed there for several hours.
Protesters in dozens of cities worldwide today demanded the release of hundreds of detainees in Iran who were arrested in the bloody aftermath of the Islamic republic's disputed presidential election.