Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled for 23 years, won another five-year term Sunday. His party has overseen several prosperous years; critics say it stifles democracy.
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions, a Justice Department report said.
If American patients who ended up with agonizing hip replacements lived in certain other industrialized countries, many might have been spared the risk.
Behind the routine at the first trial for a Guantánamo detainee, two trials are unfolding at once: one for Salim Hamdan and one for the military commission system.
AP - Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims gathered around a golden-domed shrine in a massive religious assembly in Baghdad on Tuesday, a day after three female suicide bombers struck their procession and killed 32 people.
AP - Pakistan investigated reports Tuesday that a senior al-Qaida figure was among six people killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike amid anger that the attack had violated the Islamic nation's sovereignty.
They're not running for poet laureate. But surely John McCain and Barack Obama are aware of the cautionary verse from Scottish poet Robert Burns: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
President Bush has approved the Army's request to execute a soldier convicted of rape and murder, the White House announced Monday evening. Pvt. Ronald Gray has been on the military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since 1988. His execution would be the first for the U.S. military since 1961, but the White House said it expects further appeals before the sentence is carried out.