By Al Pessin of Pentagon A U.S. Army officer opened fire on a large military base in Texas Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 30. Local officials identified the shooter as Major Nidal Malik Hasan. U.S. mil...
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MOSCOW, January 27, 2009: A woman in the U.S. state of California has given birth to eight babies, and doctors say all of them are doing well, national media said on Tuesday. The six boys and two girls were born nine weeks premature and will remai...
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Mumbai :Wednesday, November 19, 2008, The probe into how Hindu outfits accused of terrorism had links with some Army men brought a few business houses under the scanner of Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad and Central security agencies investiga...
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Astronauts on the international space station Monday flexed some of the muscles on a robotic arm attached to a new Japanese lab they delivered and helped install on the orbiting outpost. The $1 billion lab's robotic arm got its first thorough chec...
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China evacuated 200,000 people on Tuesday and closed schools in its largest city to prepare for what forecasters say will be the most powerful typhoon to hit Shanghai in a decade. The fringes of Typhoon Wipha lashed northern Taiwan, where schools,...
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By LARRY MARGASAK and MATTHEW BARAKAT: Sunday: March 18, 2007: Denouncing a conflict entering its fifth year, protesters across the country raised their voices Saturday against U.S. policy in Iraq and marched by the thousands to the Pentagon in the...
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By KIM GAMEL, Sunday: March 18, 2007: Three suicide bombers driving trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas struck targets in heavily Sunni Anbar province including the office of a Sunni tribal leader opposed to al-Qaida. The attacks killed...
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sunday: March 18, 2007: A deadly attack on an Islamic school in Thailand's restive south that left three students dead and seven injured sparked hundreds of Muslim villagers to rioted Sunday in protest. Police blamed the attack in the southern pr...
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Wednesday: feb.21, 2007: Vice President Dick Cheney reaffirmed the Bush administration's commitment to the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq on Wednesday, saying the U.S. wants to finish its mission, then "come home with honor." Cheney, who arri...
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Davos, January 28: The Internet is set to revolutionise television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. "I'm stunned how people aren't see...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that new U.S. military moves in the Persian Gulf were prompted in part by signals from Iran that it sees the United States as vulnerable in Iraq. "The Iranians clearly believe that we...
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SEOUL, South Korea - Prosecutors demanded a six-year prison term against Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo for embezzlement and other charges Tuesday, adding to the woes of the largest South Korean automaker. Chung, 68, has been on trial ...
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WASHINGTON : Tuesday: January 16, 2007: A former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military says his life was saved when he was granted a special visa to live in the United States, a status made available to only 50 Afghan and Iraqi nationals annually wh...
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12/19/2006 7:00:00 AM GMT Former CIA Director Robert Gates was officially sworn in as U.S. secretary of defense on Monday, warning that the U.S.’s failure in Iraq would be a “calamity” and vowing not to allow Afghanistan become a safe haven for “...
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Saturday, December 9, 2006 (Washington/New Delhi): In a historic day for Indo-US ties, the US Senate has passed the Indo-US nuclear Bill. Earlier, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of the landmark nuclear Bill wit...
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