England will finally win the World Cup after 44 years of pain if City boffins are to be believed. European champions Spain will be runners-up with the Netherlands winning the third place play-off, according to J.P. Morgan quantitative analysts who is...
Crime prevention minister James Brokenshire has begged England fans to behave well during the forthcoming World Cup - while taking drastic steps to stop the worst football hooligans getting to South Africa. With the 2018 World Cup bid underway the go...
There is unlikely to be a tweet out of the Spain players at the World Cup after coach Vicente del Bosque banned them from using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook during the tournament. The 23-players in the European champions' squa...
Back in the nation's capital, the debate over health care reform is ratcheting up. The House of Representatives might vote on its health care bill this weekend. And yesterday, that bill, which has been backed primarily by House Democrats, picked up t...
A horrific outburst of violence. That is how President Obama described yesterday's deadly shooting at a military post in Texas. A gunman opened fire on a soldier processing center at Ft. Hood, killing at least 12 people, wounding dozens of others. Ac...
We began with the meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao, and I was frankly a little surprised he was so focused on US-China Clean Energy Cooperation, framing it in part as important for the US-China relationship, and then also as important for advancing th...
First thing people should know is that the two expert agencies, the World Health Organization and CDC - Centers for Disease Control, have reviewed the environment, and neither have recommended any restrictions whatsoever on travel. The air in a cabin...
President Obama is pushing for some big reforms in U.S. schools. In Wisconsin yesterday he talked about the Race to the Top program. Now it's local and state governments that make decisions about education policies. But the federal government can giv...
There is a move afoot you may have heard this, to cap the pay of CEOs whose companies receive TARP money. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri has just suggested 400,000 dollars, the same amount of money that the President makes, that's all these CEO...
China moved almost a million people from its coastal provinces to safer areas before Typhoon Morakat hit the mainland on Sunday. Heavy rain triggered landslides and caused several hundred houses to collapse, but the effects weren't as bad as might ha...