A US spy satellite has photographed some 60 trucks moving about a known biological weapons facility six miles northwest of Baghdad.
The Bush administration sat on a Clinton-era plan to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan for eight months because of political hostility to the outgoing president and competing priorities. The plan was drawn up in the last days of Bill Clinton’s administration.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan deepened splits this week over how the international community should respond to an Iraqi invitation for the chief UN weapons inspector to visit Baghdad by saying such a move could be considered under certain conditions.
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.
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.
Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton have asked the US government to reimburse them for several million dollars in legal fees incurred during an inconclusive probe of a financial scandal.
Desperate for leads to the sniper, police are hoping their voices reach whoever has killed ten people in the Washington area. ”Your children are not safe anywhere at any time,” the purported killer writes in a note.
Police in Maryland have made two arrests at a highway rest stop in connection to the Washington-area sniper case, CNN television said early on Thursday quoting sources listening to police scanners.
Iraq could unleash a biological attack on the West by using unsuspecting people traveling abroad as carriers of deadly germs, a prominent Iraqi defector warned late on Thursday.
The Central Intelligence Agency warned of a ”pretty high” risk of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein using weapons of mass destruction in the event of a US attack, as key UN members edged closer to agreement on a new resolution on Iraq.
The United States, pushing to expand economic ties with sub-Saharan Africa, has held good talks on a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with southern African countries and hopes to launch formal negotiations early next year, US Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Friday.
Accounting irregularities at fallen telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. stretch back to 2000, one year earlier than previously believed, a congressman investigating the company said on Sunday.
A REPUBLICAN-led committee of the House approved -million in aid for Israel on Thursday despite earlier objections by President George Bush’s administration.