North Korea warns that an impending joint military exercises by the South and the US are pushing the region to 'the brink of war', amid rising tension.
By some counts, at least half the foreigners living in the Chinese trade hub of Guangzhou are Africans. Many face hassles ranging from visa expiration to police raids.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Fresh artillery shots were heard Friday on the tense South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, three days after it was devastated by a North Korean attack and hours after Pyongyang warned that the peninsula was on the brink of war.
AP - Another underground blast ripped through a New Zealand coal mine on Friday almost a week to the minute after an earlier explosion caused the country's worst mining disaster in decades, with 29 killed.
The bodies of the two South Korean civilians killed this week by the North's artillery attack arrived today on the mainland for burial. Criticism of South Korea's measured response to the Tuesday shelling attack on Yeonpyeong Island, the North's first attack on civilians on South Korean soil since the Korean War ended 57 years ago, prompted the country's president to beef up defense measures.
Many U.S. families sat down today at a Thanksgiving dinner table with an empty chair, waiting for a loved one to come home from war. But U.S. troops on the front lines in Afghanistan took time to mark the Thanksgiving holiday, even at one of the most targeted bases in the country, one mile from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Some shoppers prepare for Black Friday like a coach before the big game. But others avoid it like the plague. What compels shoppers to head into a mad rush?
After an 18-month prison term in Australia for the 2003 death of his new bride, David Gabriel Watson was arrested Thursday after being indicted for murder in Alabama.
PETN, an explosive favored by al Qaeda and the target of heightened TSA screening, has been found in a California home, authorities say. They described the house as a bomb-making factory.
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