In the first suicide bombing claimed by Hamas in nearly two years, a grandmother blew herself up on Thursday near Israeli soldiers operating inside Gaza, near the town of Beit Lahiya.
Meet the world’s next great metropolis, a once-gracious city bursting from the confines of its history, wide-eyed with the wonders of traffic jams and tall buildings, and thinking very, very big.
In the fall of 2005, the generals running the Iraq war told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a gradual withdrawal of American troops from Iraq was imperative.
Opening a blocked artery with balloons and stents can be lifesaving in the early hours after a heart attack, but a new study concludes that it often does no good if the heart attack occurred more than 25 hours ago.
In an embarrassing legislative setback for the administration, the House of Representatives defeated a measure late on Monday that the president had sought to normalise trade relations with Vietnam...
Democrat leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months...
For most of the world, the cold war ended when the Berlin Wall came down. Not so in the Caribbean basin. Here the stubbornness of old cold warriors in Washington and the equal tenacity
Democrats sought on Friday to put their new political power to use in shaping the debate over Iraq, promising stepped-up Congressional oversight of the war and a resolution demanding a schedule for reducing the number of troops there
A new class of drugs is looming on the horizon that could, if they live up to their promise, avert heart disease, diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
Senator George Allen is expected to concede his re-election campaign against his Democratic challenger, Jim Webb, according to two Republicans connected to the Allen campaign.
