America's battered housing industry is showing signs of life, according to new U.S. government statistics. Home sales rising, but prices still slumping U.S. home sales recorded the largest monthly increase in more than eight years, rising 11 percent...
Negotiators for the Congolese government and a rebel group in the country's east have reached a preliminary agreement, after talks in the eastern town of Goma. Neither side has released details of the discussion, which would only set the stage for f...
A U.S. passenger jet crash-landed in New York City's Hudson River on Thursday with 155 passengers and crew onboard. But tragedy was averted when ferries and tourist boats came to the aid of the sinking plane and everyone was evacuated. Tail fin of A...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 28 February 2008 Intelligence officials and witnesses in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area say an apparent missile strike has killed at least 13 people - several of whom appeared to be foreigners. Similar previous ex...
By David Gollust Washington 01 May 2007 US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker The new U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, says the reported death of Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri would be a welcome development. But he says it would not e...
By Melinda Smith and Paul Sisco Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch 2006 Science and Medicine Within the next quarter century, AIDS is projected to be among the top three causes of death around the world. That dire prediction comes from researcher...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 20 July 2006 watch Middle East report At least 11 Israeli soldiers have been wounded in several clashes with Hezbollah militants on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Hezbollah also continued firing rockets into...