For the first time in 10 years, Israel said it will build a new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, prompting Palestinian anger and American concern.
While some Louisiana residents continue to rebuild homes or live in government-funded trailers, nearly 5 percent of the state's population has fled since Hurricane Katrina, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau today.
If smoking 40 cigarettes a day is bad, you might think that smoking 20 would be half as bad. But reducing tobacco use doesn't reduce cancer risk by the same amount, and researchers have provided a clue as to why: Smokers who cut back compensate for the drop in nicotine by inhaling more smoke from each cigarette.
AP - Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill him.
AP - President Bush went to his ranch Tuesday to rethink U.S. involvement in Iraq as his spokesman hailed a Baghdad court's decision upholding the death sentence for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
AP - A string of car bombs and other blasts killed at least 54 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 17 outside Baghdad's most venerated Sunni mosque, while U.S. troops battled Shiite militiamen in Baghdad.
At least 200 people were killed outside Lagos, Nigeria, in a massive explosion and fire that ignited as crowds carried away buckets of refined fuel from a tapped fuel pipeline, the Nigerian Red Cross said. Extreme heat has prevented rescue workers from recovering bodies, and they fear the death toll could rise significantly.
Sen. Joseph Biden, the incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he has invited Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify during three weeks of hearings in January about the Iraq war.
Donald Trump may have hired one more apprentice than he thinks. When the real estate mogul launched Trump Mortgage in April, he said it would inject integrity into an industry that has the reputation for giving customers a raw deal.