U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday the biggest economic stimulus plan in the nation's history. The almost $800 billion in government spending and tax cuts is designed to get America's economy back on track. President Barack Obama si...
Israeli warplanes have attacked smuggling tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, after militants in Gaza fired at least two rockets into southern Israel. The tit-for-tat violence is further complicating prospects to draft a truce between Israel a...
Hillary Clinton arrives Monday in Japan, the first of four stops in Asia - her first official foreign travel as secretary of state. She will also visit South Korea, Indonesia and China to build partnerships she says will transcend geographic and pol...
A court in Australia has released the identity of a man accused of lighting a fire in the southeastern state of Victoria. Brendan Sokaluk, faces charges of arson causing death, intentionally lighting a bushfire and one count of possessing child porn...
President Hugo Chavez is celebrating victory in a referendum to end term limits for elected officials. The president's proposal passed with 54 percent of votes cast. The measure will allow Mr. Chavez to stay in power as long as he keeps winning elec...
The global economic downturn is hitting France's overseas territories particularly hard. A wave of protests and strikes has shuttered supermarkets, gas stations and schools in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The government has vo...
Zimbabwe's newly-nominated deputy agricultural minister, Movement for Democratic Change party treasurer Roy Bennett, is being held on charges of attempting to acquire weapons. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says Bennett's arrest was politically mo...
Authorities in Pakistan have agreed to introduce Islamic law in a restive northwestern region in a bid to stop a spreading Taliban insurgency. Taliban and Islamist militants listen to speakers at a meeting with Pakistani officials in Peshawar, 16 Fe...
A British official said nuclear-armed submarines from Britain and France collided deep under the Atlantic Ocean while on separate exercises earlier this month, but limited details are only now emerging. A British Ministry of Defense handout picture...
World markets are lower after new figures show Japan's economy is shrinking at a rate not seen for decades and more bad financial news is released in Britain. Man walks past share prices board in Tokyo, 12 Feb 2009 In Japan, a fourth-quarter economi...
Hillary Clinton is in Tokyo on the first stop of her First overseas trip as U.S. Secretary of State. The visit is to focus on the global economic crisis and Asian security hot spots. Clinton will also visit Indonesia, South Korea and China. Secretar...
Indian administered Kashmir became part of the international aviation map on Saturday with an Air India flight connecting the summer capital Srinagar with Dubai. Kashmir officials hope the flights boost Kashmir's tourism and trade which is strugglin...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government will participate in President Barack Obama's strategic review of the war in Afghanistan. Mr. Karzai announced the agreement after meeting with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke. U.S. Special Envoy Richard...
U.S. President Barack Obama keeps the focus squarely on the troubled American economy this week as he signs a massive stimulus package into law, and announces steps to help the housing market. The almost $790-billion stimulus bill is the biggest eco...
President Barack Obama scored his first major political victory with the passage of a $787-billion stimulus package, which he will sign into law this week. Although many economists now agree that a stimulus was needed to jolt the ailing economy, som...
