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Gates landed in Kabul on an unannounced visit on Tuesday to meet with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan about how the United States plans to use 30,000 additional American troops that will be arriving in the country in the coming...

Bernanke said Monday, but his guardedly optimistic assessment for growth contained no hints that the central bank is looking to raise interest rates anytime soon. "Economic forecasts are subject to great uncertainty, but my guess is that we will continue...

Photographer Maziar Pourbeheshti was shaken as he logged onto his Facebook account in the early evening from his Tehran apartment. At the Tehran University campus Monday, he had witnessed teargas and beatings throughout a day of high drama.

A previously known incident of abuse of a detainee by Afghan policemen was raised in the House of Commons on Monday as evidence of serious problems in Canada's handling of prisoners. "What kind of government, what kind of Canadian government,...

Celebrity news and gossip from the man with the unpronounceable name, Myrddin Gwynedd. Self-confessed transgressor and pro putter Tiger Woods , we have a problem....we're no longer in the land of single digits...Another day, another wallflower crawls out of the...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he is optimistic about the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, believing countries at the meeting will manage to achieve a common proposal to reduce global carbon...

As if his plan for global domination weren’t enough, Virgin Group honcho Richard Branson is taking to space with his new commercial spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, which will grant six paying customers at a time the experience of weightlessness for six minutes. ...

The department has about 700 doses of FluMist, which is administered through inhalation, and the rest in injectable doses, Christopherson said. The health department has canceled a vaccination clinic set for today at the Hutchinson Sports Arena because of the...

Liberal and moderate Senate Democrats said Monday they may be nearing agreement on a package of alternatives to a government-run public health insurance option in the chamber's sweeping health care bill. Emerging from a meeting, the negotiating senators said the...

An experimental version of Goggles will be available for people at Google Labs website. Goggles already recognises books, wine labels, CD covers, landmarks and more, according to Mr Gundotra. He demonstrated by taking a picture of a wine bottle label...