At Least 42 soldiers were killed and dozens were wounded this morning after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military training base in northwestern Pakistan...
An Iraqi special tribunal today convicted Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging for the brutal repression of Dujail, a Shiite town, in the 1980s.
Twelve years ago, Newt Gingrich was seen to be the architect of the Republican takeover of the American Congress. It may not be so easy for the Democrats to pick one person to give the credit to if they wrest it back tomorrow. And therein lies their dilemma on how to frame an agenda
A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.
For at least a few hours on Tuesday, President Bush had a chance to relive his victorious campaign of 2004, taking a break from a bleak Republican campaign season as he attacked Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts over the war in Iraq.
The Pakistani military said today that it had destroyed a madrasa which was being used for training militants in the Bajur tribal area, straddling the border with Afghanistan.
Ever since President George W. Bush first proclaimed there to be an “axis of evil” in 2002, pundits, diplomats and politicians have urged him to talk to its members.
President George W Bush said on Wednesday he was “not satisfied’’ with the situation in Iraq and that the United States was shifting its tactics and working on a timetable with the Iraqi government that includes political measures to stem some of the violence.
America’s top military and civilian officials in Iraq said today that the Baghdad government has agreed to a timetable for a series of milestones to be pursued in the coming year
The densely populated country of 147 million people is caught in a political impasse which Nobel winner Yunus calls a ‘bottleneck’ to their aspirations
At the university in this humdrum German town, there are no decorous strands of ivy on the 1960s buildings, nor is there the kind of scholarly patina that blankets Heidelberg,
‘If religion was correctly understood, it would be a power of liberation, But it is misunderstood and so it is driving us backward...Man is the aim of religion, religion only a means’
The Nobel Peace Prize for this year was awarded today to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, 65, for pioneering microcredit — using loans of tiny amounts to transform destitute people into entrepreneurs.
Company, ambience, level of distraction... there are many reasons why you overeat. But an awareness of these facts can leave your plate leaner by 100 to 300 calories a day
