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A witness to the US raid in Syria has described how dozens of commandos arrived in the middle of the night on heavily armed helicopters.
Traffic clogged rounds out of the Thai capital as thousands of people fled ahead of a high tide expected to worsen floods.
The sister of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra led her party in a landslide election win on Sunday.
Thai authorities restored order in Bangkok on Thursday after a night of rioting and fires that veered towards anarchy.
Thai troops battled anti-government protesters in central Bangkok on Friday, attempting to seal off their encampment.
Bangkok braced on Sunday for more unrest a day after the Thai government rejected a peace overture from demonstrators.
Saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.
When Marissa decided to switch jobs from nursing to prostitution a year ago, the online classified site Craigslist was pivotal, she said.
Billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an -billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was served with the formal complaint on Thursday.
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with massive fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped on his headquarters.
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday of ”palling around with terrorists”.
Pressure mounted on lawmakers to agree on a -billion financial rescue plan after talks at the White House broke down in acrimony.
The architects of a -billion bailout for the United States financial system urged lawmakers on Tuesday to move quickly.
From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in American classrooms.
The University of Massachusetts on Thursday rescinded an honorary law degree awarded 22 years ago to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton battled to keep crucial New Hampshire from swinging to rising rival Barack Obama on Sunday but new polls showed him jumping into…
South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday he was ”devastated” by the human rights abuses of President Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe. Tutu…
”Electronic paper” has long been hyped as the future of newspapers and books, but products like e-books have been slow to take off. That may soon change, say executives involved…
A controversial plan to build the first large United States offshore wind-power farm won approval from Massachusetts authorities on Friday but still must clear federal regulatory…
A television network’s marketing campaign went badly awry on Wednesday, causing a day-long security scare in Boston. Apologising for Boston’s biggest security alert since the…
