An al-Qaida plan to detonate a ”dirty” radioactive bomb in the United States has been thwarted by US agents who are holding a US citizen alleged to have been in the ”planning stages” of the attack.
A MICROSOFT official acknowledged on Tuesday that the company uses a new feature in its Internet Explorer Web browser to play digital music files even if the user has already chosen a different music player.
DECIPHERING the mouse genome is the latest stakes in a race between public and private sector research teams to announce the results of their work.
Federal regulators are proposing to restrict foreign aircraft flying into and from New York and Washington and over Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
A nuclear fuel rod used at a research reactor in the Democratic Republic of Congo is missing and the possibility that it’s in the hands of terrorists has not been ruled out.
Republicans took control of the US Congress — a stunning triumph for President George Bush — on Wednesday after securing a key Senate race in Missouri, according to media projections.
The US president took a hard line with Iraq on Thursday leaving no doubt about his determination to tackle Saddam Hussein, with or without the United Nations.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced it would loan the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -million in the form of a three-year economic program.
President Bush plans to push for military action against Iraq this week, and will ask Congress to grant him authority to strike unilaterally if Saddam Hussein does not comply soon with United Nations mandates.
Iraq has tried since the middle of last year to acquire from abroad thousands of pieces of equipment that could be used only to produce enriched uranium, which is needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, US officials have disclosed.
The United States has dismissed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s recent reshuffling of his cabinet and repeated its opposition to his leadership of the country.
Pakistan appears to be sheltering some Taliban and al-Qaida forces on its territory while allowing US forces to hunt others down.
The United States had evidence the Pakistani military was preparing a nuclear strike against India in 1999, as the two nation’s armies were locked in a pitched battle in the disputed region of Kashmir.
In a new assessment of China’s military power, the Pentagon on Friday told Congress it sees a disturbing emphasis on modernisation moves that threaten Taiwan, say US defence officials.
US companies could miss out on a potential multi-billion dollar market for trading greenhouse gas emission credits unless Washington signs a global treaty to reduce those heat-trapping gases.
Thirty years after the Watergate break-in scandal that led to president Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, the tools used by the burglars to break into and wiretap the Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex were exposed to the media.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared Yasser Arafat persona non grata and shot down a dramatic appeal from the Palestinian leader for an end to Israel’s three-week-old reoccupation of West Bank cities.
The United States has asked authorities in Zimbabwe for a complete accounting of events that led police there to shoot and kill a US citizen, the US State Department said on Friday.
Broccoli and broccoli sprouts contain a chemical that kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach cancer.
Faced with Arab demands that he pressure Israel for territorial concessions, President George Bush is focussing his Middle East policy on another front – fighting terror.
The world’s most powerful economic policymakers meet behind a wall of security here Friday to plot a recovery course through turbulent global markets, a threat of war in Iraq and stumbling growth.
The US House of Representatives has voted to expel Representative James Traficant of Ohio, a loud, brash, and often crude legislator convicted earlier in federal court on bribery, tax evasion and fraud charges.
Former US President Bill Clinton earned ,2-million for giving some 60 speeches last year, according to financial data disclosed on Friday by his wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Lawmakers say they are waiting for President George Bush to make his case for invading Iraq before they endorse it.
Washington closely followed returns in the unusually close German elections on Sunday, indicating it would not rush to congratulate incumbent German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder if his liberal government returns to power.
Microsoft has announced it will cut off its support for a key product of rival Sun Microsystems.
Winning the guilty plea of an important former Enron Corporation insider, the Justice Department set sights on its biggest target yet in the massive fraud investigation: Enron’s former chief financial officer.
A briefing to a Pentagon defence panel has described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States and recommended that it be given an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism.
The president of the Republic of Congo said central African nations are focused on using their oil resources to draw business investment, rather than ”passively waiting” for new aid promised by industrialised countries.
Investigators have identified the al-Qaida operative who recruited Mohammed Atta and other Hamburg-based hijackers who took part in the September 11 terrorist attacks
Cellphones do not seem to cause cancer, according to a US study that exposed rats to strong doses of radiation similar to those emitted by cellphones.
Satisfaction with the way things are going in South Africa is very low, with 79% saying they were dissatisfied, according to the results from a survey by a Washington based research centre.