AP - Pakistan's military chief has criticized U.S. cross-border raids from Afghanistan, saying his country's sovereignty will be defended and warning that the assaults could stoke militancy.
AP - President Bush is observing the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Thursday at a time when he's having to dispatch more U.S. troops to fight rising violence in Afghanistan, the launch site for al-Qaida's assault on America.
AP - Gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas that could be vulnerable to wind and damaging floodwaters if Hurricane Ike crashes ashore as a major hurricane.
AFP - Negotiators for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai opened new power-sharing talks Wednesday amid new optimism for a deal to end the country's crisis.
AFP - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has suffered a stroke but is still able to run the country and will recover, South Korea's intelligence agency told parliament Wednesday.
Reuters - The U.S. subprime-mortgage crisis has
now spurred more federal lawsuits than the savings and loan
debacle of the late 1980s and early 1990s ever did, data
released on Wednesday shows.
Reuters - On the morning of September 11,
2001, Patrick Smith was walking toward a television set in a
Pentagon office to get news of the attacks on New York's World
Trade Center when he heard a loud boom.
Reuters - Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Larry
Craig of Idaho asked a Minnesota Court on Wednesday to void the
guilty plea he made following his arrest last year in a men's
toilet sex-sting operation.
Reuters - North Korea dismissed reports on
Wednesday that leader Kim Jong-il might be seriously ill, a
development that could trigger a power shift in Asia's only
communist dynasty.
Reuters - The U.S. military conceded it was
not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency
in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its
strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan.
Reuters - The U.S. presidential
campaign erupted on Wednesday in a spat over gender politics,
with John McCain accusing the Democrat of a sexist attack on
his running mate and Barack Obama denouncing Republican "lies
and phony outrage."
Reuters - Hurricane Ike churned through the Gulf
of Mexico's warm waters on Wednesday on a track that will
likely skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore oilpatch before it
slams into the Texas coast on Saturday.
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
plans to sell a majority stake in its asset management unit and
spin off commercial real estate holdings, hoping to restore
investor confidence and ensure its survival after reporting a
record quarterly loss of about $4 billion.
