Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Bush administration on Thursday defended the decision to rescue Bear Stearns amid questions by lawmakers about why the government was helping Wall Street investment houses but not people on Main Street.
Iraq's prime minister pledged Thursday to expand his crackdown on Shiite militias to Baghdad, despite a mixed performance so far against militants in the southern city of Basra.
On March 29 Zimbabwe went to the polls. The election was widely criticised with accusations of vote rigging, state orchestrated media bias and violent intimidation of opposition activists. The outcome was generally considered a foregone conclusion, which would have little
China's official news agency, Xinhua, said a riot erupted late Thursday in a Tibetan area of western China leaving at least one government official seriously injured. The fresh violence broke out near government offices in Garze, Sichuan province, after a
Police then detained some of the high school protesters, who took to the streets in Paris to voice out their discontent over the government's plans to reduce teacher job in the country next year.
During a summit in Romania, Secretary Gates said the troop increase in Afghanistan would be deployed even if troop levels in Iraq are not reduced before late 2008. This is the first time the Bush administration has ever committed to
Twenty bodies were recovered while many in critical condition were taken to hospitals," Tapas Chatterjee, chairman of Rajarhat Municipality, told the Indo-Asian News Service.
The pontiff, whose real name is Josef Cardinal Ratzinger and comes from Germany, has not been bitten by the travel bug as much as his predecessor, the charismatic Pope John Paul II. This year, though, he is slated to visit
