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Pakistani police say at least four people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a vehicle carrying the head of a local peace committee. Several more have been injured. Police said the suicide...
Rebels have started a major assault on an important military air base in Syria's northwest. The fighting comes as Washington pushes for an overhaul of Syria's opposition. Activists said rebels had on Saturday begun a large-scale offensive against the Taftanaz air base in the northern province of...
Forget "Words With Friends." After superstorm Sandy knocked out power, Internet and wireless services for millions in the Northeast, many tech-addicted residents dusted off their old-fashioned board games. About 3.63 million customers in the region were still without power today, four days after...
While the US Air Force's drones have been firing all sorts of air-to-surface missiles and bombs for roughly a decade now, the Navy took a big step toward getting in on the action last week when it launched six Israeli-made Spike missiles from an unmanned 36-foot motorboat. The Navy pretty much...
There was a familiar ring to the new speech in which Mitt Romney called Friday for a shared sense of purpose and promised an era of national healing. It sounded very much like the themes Barack Obama ran on four years ago. "I will lead America to a better place, where confidence in the future...
The investigation following the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter-registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Virginia, has widened, with state officials probing whether a company tied to top Republican leaders had engaged in voter-registration fraud in the key battleground state,...
HAVANA -- In a country where money is perennially tight, it might seem a fantastic gift: A celebrity ballet star pledges to raise millions of dollars to rescue the ruins of an architectural masterpiece abandoned in mid-construction five decades ago in his native Cuba. Instead, Carlos Acosta's plan...
