Afghan police man stands near shops damaged in an explosion outside the police headquarters in Kandahar, 14 March 2010 Afghan authorities say security forces have killed five militants suspected of planning to carry out suicide bombings in the country's east.
In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of the real Iraq: an insecure Sunni Arab minority more or less united in one bloc, the Shiite Arab majority building self-confidence and naturally fracturing along religious/secular lines, and the Kurdish (predominantly Sunni) minority united against the Arabs but internally fractious and increasingly dissatisfied with the two families who've ruled Kurdish politics for decades.
Death In South Carolina After Aircraft Had Engine Trouble A plane forced to make an emergency landing as the engine shut down and the propeller came off has killed a man exercising on the beach where it touched down.
NY: A new tool has been added to help people find out if a moderate- to high-risk sex offender has moved into their community. E-mail, text message, fax or telephone alerts from the state are now available for those who want to know when convicted sex offenders move in or out of a community.
Simpson, of Old Bridge, N.J., is 42 years old, has two kids and a boyfriend, and she weighs 602 pounds. That's right ... 602 pounds. She's on a diet, of course, because she has a goal in mind: She wants to weigh 1,000 pounds. That's right ... 1,000 pounds. It's a nice, extra-round figure - .
Even as U.S. companies move production of everything from board games to dishwashers to other countries, American factories churn out billions of dollars worth of goods.
An American car sold in Chicago may have rolled off an assembly line in Tennessee with parts made from a dozen different countries. Who decides what's "Made in the USA"?
Tiger Woods' fall from grace has taken a big bite out of his endorsement income. According to one expert, the damage estimate is $50 million per year, or roughly half of his sponsorship earnings.
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.
Toyota said there were "significant inconsistencies" between a California man's claim that his Prius sped out of control and the findings of the company's preliminary investigation.
