UNITED States President Barack Obama is to announce this morning (Beijing Time) that he will send about 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan in a long-awaited war strategy shift that he hopes will defeat the Taliban...
THE guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come. Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and...
TEHRAN warned yesterday it will take strong action against five detained British sailors if it is proven they had "bad intentions" when their racing yacht entered Iran's Persian Gulf waters and was seized. The...
SEATTLE police early yesterday shot and killed a man suspected of gunning down four police officers, a sheriff's spokesman said, a day after the man eluded police who had spent hours trying to coax him out of a house. ...
THE popular herbal supplement ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent heart attacks and strokes in older adults, but it may help lower their risk of blocked arteries in the legs, according to a new US study. Ginkgo,...
LONDON'S underground train system suffers from so much overcrowding that passengers have to "psyche" themselves up to cope with the stress of using it, according to a report yesterday. A survey by the London...
EIGHT days after Philippines' worst political massacre, prosecutors yesterday charged the heir of a powerful clan who they say directed the slaughter of 57 people, more than half of them journalists. Three witnesses,...
MICHAEL Jackson's death thrust the singer to the top of yahoo.com Internet searches in 2009, ending Britney Spears' four-year reign and helping bump United States President Barack Obama from the top 10. Although...
SWISS security experts are preparing Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet for the movie director's house arrest. A commercial security service team has entered the home in the exclusive resort of Gstaad. They declined...
LONELINESS, like the flu, is contagious, US research shows. It can spread among groups of people and women are more likely than men to become "infected," according to researchers at the University of Chicago, the...
MICHAEL Jackson's death thrust the singer to the top of yahoo.com Internet searches in 2009, putting an end to Britney Spears' four-year reign and helping bump the President Barack Obama from the top 10 list. Although...
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