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.
The United States has expressed concern over an Iraqi order for more than a million doses of the nerve gas antidote atropine, amid fears Baghdad may be preparing to use chemical weapons in the event
of military action against it.
Siblings of centenarians have an increased chance of breaking the century mark, according to a study, reinforcing the idea of a longevity gene.
US authorities prepared to take custody on Sunday of top al-Qaida lieutenant Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, a suspected planner of the September 11 attacks who was captured last week in a raid in Pakistan.
Former US Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh was expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday under the terms of a plea agreement struck in July.
US President George Bush will tell the United Nations (UN) next week that United States will act on its own to disarm Iraq unless world leaders take action to do so.
The Bush administration has threatened to respond with nuclear weapons to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, in what was being seen yesterday as a clear warning to Saddam Hussein not to use his weapons of mass destruction in the event of a war.
The September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were meticulously planned and carried out with military precision.
Everyone knows 9 and 11 and their mournful association. Other numbers, too have meaning. They speak of the magnitude of that day, the tumult of the year.
Initial forensic tests have confirmed that human remains found in Pakistan are those of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Suddenly, US President George Bush is tangling with not one but both of his most denounced international villains: Osama bin Laden and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
President George Bush warned on Saturday of the ”massive and sudden horror” that Iraq could inflict if not disarmed, sharpening his case against Saddam Hussein in advance of a major speech on Monday.
The terrorist threat against the United States is an ”enduring vulnerability” and a ”permanent condition,” the top presidential anti-terrorism advisor.
A US military strike on Iraq or any other country developing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons would essentially be ”self-defence”, says Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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US President George Bush promised on Monday to pursue executive lawbreakers and restore trust in corporate America but was forced to defend his own record as a Texan oil executive.
The Bush administration is considering a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq that would start with an attack on Baghdad and one or two key command centres and weapons depots.
German investigators say they have found evidence that Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the September 11 attacks, and two of his accomplices trained at al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in 1999 and 2000, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
Big business ranks as the least-trusted institution in the world alongside national parliaments, according to an international public opinion poll released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Friday.
The G8 summit in Canada this week provides a singular
opportunity for developed countries to help break the cycle of African underdevelopment, South African President Thabo Mbeki wrote in the New York Times on Monday.
Microsoft will reveal hundreds of pieces of computer code from its monopoly Windows operating system in the next several weeks to comply with an antitrust settlement.
The US-Russian effort that whisked a cache of weapons-grade uranium out of Yugoslavia this week is part of a larger nuclear materials security programme given new urgency after the September 11 attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon headed for Washington as fresh violence hit the West Bank, shortly after US President George Bush ruled out any calendar for establishing a Palestinian state.
US warplanes bombed a mobile air defence radar in a raid on the military side of the international airport in Basra in southern Iraq, Pentagon officials said on Thursday.
Bankrupt telecommunications firm WorldCom Inc. said it uncovered another ,3-billion in bogus accounting, adding to the ,85-billion fraud it revealed in June.
Jailing crooked executives and strengthening laws against corporate wrongdoing are needed to restore Americans’ confidence in big business.
Militants from the al-Qaida network, blamed for September 11 suicide attacks, may be preparing another massive strike against the United States, including US apartment buildings.
President George Bush will oppose any new US aid to Egypt to protest the seven-year jail sentence handed down last month to human rights activist, Egyptian-American Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Security checks, random searches, new airline ticket fees and other hassles since the September 11 attacks have kept many people off planes and on the road, particularly for short trips.
A Palestinian gunman was shot dead on Saturday after he killed an Israeli woman during a raid on a West Bank settlement, capping a day that saw eight people die, despite a Palestinian security official’s meeting with CIA chief George Tenet.
A marauding invader, with a voracious appetite and seemingly supernatural powers, aroused fears from the moment its presence in the United States first became the subject of news headlines and local television broadcasts.
Former US president Jimmy Carter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a soft-spoken, onetime Washington outsider who not only made it into the White House but carried on afterwards to earn broad praise as a global mediator and humanitarian.