Rashid Rauf, terror mastermind believed to be behind 2006 trans-Atlantic plane bombing, and another top al-Qaeda operative were among five killed in a US missile attack...
US President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State as early as next week, a new milestone for a former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who contested mightily for the presidency.
Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world’s biggest hijack, a local elder said.
A confounding and perhaps divinely inspired Inauguration Day tradition is coming to an end: Handshake Man says he can’t make it to the celebration on January 20.
Senate Democratic leaders are prepared to give Hillary Clinton a still-undefined leadership role there if she does not become Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, Democratic officials close to the situation said.
Jiang Xujun felt the stab of his daughter’s death all over again Friday when Chinese officials acknowledged for the first time that 19,000 students perished in May’s deadly earthquake.
An internal CIA probe has concluded that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors about key details of the 2001 downing of an airplane carrying US missionaries in Peru, according to a senior lawmaker who called for a new criminal inquiry into the case.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to President-elect Barack Obama this week and offered to work for the Democratic administration once his term expires, the California Governor said in an interview.
A federal judge ruled here for the first time on Thursday that the Bush administration had no basis for holding several of its long-term prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and he ordered that five of the Algerian natives go free.
