Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects, as they confront an enemy skilled in operating in a mountainous terrain with endless ways to wage a guerrilla war.
Honduras' deposed leader is sleeping on an air mattress. His "roommates" have not bathed, shaved or changed their clothes in three days. Tap water is scarce and dinner is limited to dry biscuits or rice and beans.
The Big East has two teams in the Final Four, but it's Michigan State who will be hosting the party. Here's a look at the matchups Saturday in Detroit:
"I think we'll continue to make history down the stretch,” said Pittsburgh forward Sam Young in January after the Panthers rose to the school’s first-ever No. 1 ranking in college basketball.
Geno Auriemma puts the burden of Connecticut's success on center Tina Charles.
The No. 1 seeds still have a chance at matching last year's history.
Computer-virus infections don't cause your machine to crash anymore.
Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do and shipping your secrets to identity thieves.
The Army's top lawyer is disputing a critical government report that concluded faith instead of facts drove the investigation of a civilian employee wrongly suspected of spying for Israel.
Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, brings to his confirmation hearing next week a dream resume and a bull's-eye target with his picture in the middle.
Congress' fiercest Democratic watchdogs may stop barking after Jan. 20.
Three top executives in the office of the Pentagon inspector general received cash awards of about $30,000 each for outstanding leadership even though their agency has a history of weak management and strained relations between employees and supervisors.
They showed up, as they do every night: businessmen for meetings in the elegant restaurant that overlooks the harbor, politicians for cocktails in a bar with velvet seats and wood and marble floors, friends for a steak dinner by the pool.
Come January, not everyone from the Bush administration will be out of office.
Instead of seeing red, Pentagon audit managers saw business as usual after being told that a major military contractor failed to open all its books for review.
Senate candidates are plodding through another election with paper campaign finance reports, possibly depriving voters of discovering last-minute details about fundraising and spending that could prove embarrassing.
Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has been generous to his Republican colleagues, donating more than a half-million dollars to them from his leadership political action committee over six years. Now that Coleman faces a tough re-election, they are returning the favor, giving his campaign about $350,000 from their own leadership PACs.
Along with the rest of America, Rep. George Miller has watched the value of his retirement investments plummet in recent weeks.
With his city spared from major damage, and his husky body surpassing the edges of a narrow cot, Eddie Brown had come to believe Gustav was no longer the villain in this hurricane story: It was this rusted and vacant Sam's warehouse brimming with 3,000 evacuees.
Erik Prince gets his guests to the runway seconds before the turboprop's approach. The financiers hop out of his black Chevy Suburban and gawk as the pilots drop a pair of packages that float to within feet of their target — just as they might on a mission for Blackwater Worldwide in the Afghan backcountry.
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods have walls.
Baghdad hasn't been this quiet in years. But the respite from bloodshed comes at a high price.
Once the brackets came out it seemed inevitable that Connecticut and Rutgers would meet in the Greensboro Regional final.
A deer named Dillie lives in the house with a family in Ohio.
When I got my first wristwatch for Christmas in (I believe) 1969 I automatically put it on my left wrist with the face on the top of my wrist. I guess because that's how my dad wore his. However it wasn't long before I noticed that different people wear them differently.
Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers
A 15-year-old girl who allegedly worships Satan was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of lighting a fire at her Orangevale church.
The University of Georgia Police bomb squad was called Thursday to remove and destroy a grenade found inside a foreclosed home in northern Clarke County, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
I woke up with something hard inside my heart i dont know what exactly why I feel like this maybe bcoz I had a conversation to one of your friend and @!$%# i dont wanna remember you anymore but why you doing this to me. I am trying to forget you.
Can I stop in the golden hours of your tears? I don't want to waste another thought. Give me the power to contrive new ideas. For is not love the eraser of time's wounds? The fortress is closing in on me; yet, my mind remains stern inside these frigid waters. I am empty in …
What is 7 feet long, weighs 30 pounds, has eight arms and fits in a box slightly larger than a milk crate?
A man is in jail on a $700,000 bond after being arrested for arson. Olan W. Jones, 52, faces charges of arson of an occupied dwelling for a Wednesday morning fire in Brooker, according to the Bradford County Sheriff's Office.
PITTSBURGH -- A Highland Park man is facing charges after he allegedly left his 3-year-old child locked in a car in a grocery store parking lot. The incident happened Thursday afternoon at the Giant Eagle Market District store on Centre Avenue in Shadyside.
The 23-year-old man of Meadow Heights in suburban Melbourne had just landed at Melbourne Airport on Sunday after a flight from Dubai when customs and border control officers stopped him and searched his bags.
DENVER -- Within minutes of stepping off a bus Tuesday morning, a woman dropped a special package at the downtown Denver library -- a baby. "We had a miracle here today," said Thomas Scott, manager of security at the library.
This is a question that has occupied everyone since the dawn of time. Most people will immediately say 'inside'. Very true, as all facets of the person should be taken into account.
A woman has undergone an operation to remove a swab left inside her during a Caesarean delivery. Sahar Asma Sarfaraz of Beckenham, south London, gave birth to her first child Sabrina at Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington on Tuesday.
Human ovaries have been grown inside mice at Cornell University.
SBS Dateline, Australia's Special Broadcasting Services October 12, 2005 42 minutes documentary
A small aircraft crashed into an appartment building in Richmond, B.C. today killing the pilot and injuring two people in the building. Interestingly, the plane actually flew right into the appartment and part of it remains inside.
Photographs of the interior of SpaceShipTwo vehicle are unveiled in this gallery.
Police say their battery apparently died, the automatic locks failed, and they didn't know they could unlock the doors manually.
You don't need the Magic School Bus to head into a walled cell; you just need a plane ticket to the Far East where the first cell-shaped building will soon be erected.
Treating malaria and other diseases caused by parasites requires a good understanding of the parasite. A new video of the malaria parasite at work should help researchers develop better treatments.
My sister says you should be able to predict with a high level of accuracy whether or not you will like a movie by the time the opening credits are over. She often cites 1988's Jack's Back as an example.
The first detailed look into the new Intel Mac Mini. It looks roughly the same, with a few minor changes.