With funereal grief, America marks September 11
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearing the names of...
Get the full story >>Bush says U.S. will never forget Flight 93
SHANKSVILLE, PA (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush on Saturday promised that the nation would never forget the heroism of the 40...
Get the full story >>Truck bomb kills 4 Afghans, wounds 77 U.S. troops
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a truck of firewood attacked a NATO base in central Afghanistan, killing four civilians and...
Get the full story >>New York cracks down after "credible" 9/11 threat
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York police amassed a display of force on Friday including checkpoints that snarled traffic in...
Get the full story >>Libyan forces push into Gaddafi bastion
NORTH OF BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan forces who have launched an assault on the last holdout towns of Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists...
Get the full story >>Zanzibar vows stern action over ferry disaster
STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) - Zanzibar on Sunday vowed stern punishment for those responsible for overloading a ferry that capsized off...
Get the full story >>Republican could swipe Weiner's former seat
The sex scandal that rocked New York's 9th Congressional District this year is tame compared with those that launched "The Jerry Springer...
Get the full story >>NBC News Twitter hacked with fake attack messages
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The NBC News Twitter feed was hacked on Friday by a group that claimed a hijacked plane, in a fresh attack, had...
Get the full story >>Egypt vows to try those who targeted Israel mission
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army rulers vowed on Saturday to try those behind the violence that pushed Israel to evacuate its ambassador...
Get the full story >>Taliban plan abductions to free bin Laden family
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants plan to kidnap senior Pakistani officials to pressure authorities to release relatives...
Get the full story >>Evacuees cleared to return after eastern floods
WILKES-BARRE, Pa (Reuters) - Some people evacuated as flood waters rose in Pennsylvania were allowed to return to their mud-caked, water-...
Get the full story >>Rocket lifts off with satellites to probe moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned U.S. rocket blasted off on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to...
Get the full story >>Fresh crews, light winds help fight Texas wildfires
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - More than a thousand firefighters, aided by lighter winds, on Saturday began to beat back raging wildfires that have...
Get the full story >>Syria, Arab League "agree reforms" as killings go on
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said he had agreed a series of measures with President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to...
Get the full story >>Japan's new PM suffers early blow as minister quits
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's new government suffered a blow on Saturday after just eight days in office when...
Get the full story >>Obama asks Congress for $5.1 billion in disaster aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Congress on Friday for $5.1 billion in supplemental disaster relief as damage from...
Get the full story >>Power is restored in San Diego, officials announce
All 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas & Electric have had power restored, the company announced at 4:30 a.m Friday, some 13 hours after...
Get the full story >>Obama tries to sell jobs plan, end gridlock
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama began an uphill battle on Friday for support for a $447 billion jobs plan he hopes...
Get the full story >>Quake off Vancouver, no damage reported
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 quake struck off Vancouver Island on Friday, some 175 miles northwest of Vancouver on Canada's Pacific...
Get the full story >>Amanda Knox hopes to be home for Thanksgiving: paper
ROME (Reuters) - U.S. student Amanda Knox, who is appealing her conviction for the 2007 murder of her British housemate in Italy, is hopeful...
Get the full story >>Rural areas less healthy than urban areas: study
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Conventional wisdom might suggest living in the country would be healthier than the city, but that is not...
Get the full story >>New group of Muammar Gaddafi officials arrive in Niger
AGADEZ (Reuters) - A new group of 14 Muammar Gaddafi officials including General Ali Kana, a Tuareg who was one of Gaddafi's close guards in...
Get the full story >>U.S. accuses Venezuela officials of drug ties
CARACAS (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday accused four Venezuelan officials of helping to provide arms to drug-running Colombian...
Get the full story >>NATO says mistakenly killed BBC Afghan reporter in July
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier killed an Afghan reporter working for the BBC, mistakenly believing him to be a suicide bomber about to...
Get the full story >>Fast and Furious guns tied to second violent crime
In the second violent crime in this country connected with the ATF’s failed Fast and Furious program, two Arizona undercover police...
Get the full story >>More on the marijuana wars
Several recent studies suggest a nation growing increasingly enamored of marijuana. Adding to the evidence are statistics released...
Get the full story >>Ben & Jerry's creates "Schweddy Balls" ice cream flavor
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Vermont's Ben & Jerry's newest ice cream flavor sounds more likely to tickle funny bones than taste...
Get the full story >>Fidel Castro photos published after health rumors
HAVANA (Reuters) - Photographs of a frail but apparently well Fidel Castro were posted on a Cuban government website on Thursday,...
Get the full story >>Turkish warships will escort aid vessels to Gaza: Erdogan
CAIRO (Reuters) - Turkey said on Thursday it would escort aid ships to Gaza and would not allow a repetition of last year's Israeli raid...
Get the full story >>Twitter ramps up ad efforts, no rush for IPO
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter is preparing to broaden the areas of its service where ads appear, but the company is in no hurry to...
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