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RUSUTSU, Japan, July 7–President Bush sat down with Dmitry Medvedev Monday for the first time since the protégé of Vladimir Putin became president of Russia. And while Bush did not claim to get a sense of Medvedev’s soul–as he did after his initial meeting with Putin–he did say he found the new Russian president to […]
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BAGHDAD, July 7 — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed.
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KABUL, July 7 — At least 40 people were killed and 141 injured Monday in a powerful suicide blast near the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, Afghan officials said.
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TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - World leaders head into the second day of the annual G8 summit preoccupied by soaring food and oil prices and deeply divided over how to tackle climate change.
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ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday called for a second stimulus package to boost the ailing U.S. economy, while Republican John McCain tried to paint his presidential rival as a tax-and-spend liberal in a battle over who can best handle voters’ No. 1 concern.
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Former British soldier Simon Mann has been sentenced to 34 years and four months in jail by an Equatorial Guinea court for his role in a 2004 coup plot.
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The 8:30 a.m. explosion was the deadliest attack in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 and the deadliest in Afghanistan since a suicide bomber killed more than 100 people at a dog fighting competition in Kandahar province in February.
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Christian radio stations are broadcasting adverts in which Barack
Obama describes how he let Jesus into his life as he knelt before a
cross in a Chicago church 23 years ago.
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The male biological clock can reduce chances of fatherhood as early as a man’s late 30s or early 40s, research has suggested.
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PAMPLONA, Spain (July 7) - Daredevils kicked off the running of the
bulls Monday with a long, messy and particularly dangerous dash
through the streets of Pamplona, with nine people suffering bumps
and bruises but none gored, officials said.
The half-mile sprint through cobblestone streets turned chaotic
because the pack of six half-ton beasts became separated early in
the route after […]
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A party is being held at the grave of a 7/7 bomber in what is being seen as an insult to the 52 London commuters murdered three years ago today.
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The US doll market is about to be hit by a 25cm talking Bindi Irwin doll dressed in khakis and delivering a message about conservation.
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Question: What’s next for Zimbabwe?
On June 27, 2008, Robert Mugabe ran for his sixth term as president of Zimbabwe, a position he’s held since the country’s 1980 independence. However, Mugabe competed in the runoff election against himself: Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who led after the first round of voting and is widely […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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It’s been said that Adolf Hitler, descending even further into darkness from the madman that he already was, lost his head during those final days in his Berlin bunker before swallowing his cyanide caplets. (And if you haven’t seen it, the German film “Downfall,” with a chilling performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler, documents this […]
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Irony is a word so often misused, but I’m pretty sure we can apply it to the arrest of Nicholas T. Sheley  Here’s a guy with a string of arrests, convictions, and some jail time. He’s allegedly just left at least 8 bodies in his wake over a few days. But did you see […]
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A suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 28 people and wounded 141 others, a health ministry spokesman has said.
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Iraq’s prime minister said Saturday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias.
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The lawyer for Serbian bar brawler Miladin Kovacevic is familiar with defending thugs - his rogues’ gallery of a client list includes the “Butcher of Belgrade” himself, Slobodan Milosevic.
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