All of our equipment has been handed over to Antarctic Logistics, which is taking us the 3,200 kilometres across the Drake Passage to its base camp at Patriot Hills in the Ellesmere Mountains. Now, we sit here with only the

So it's tempting to describe this week's outrages as "the Sept. 11 of India." The narrative is hard to resist: A surprisingly well-organized group of mysterious Islamic terrorists launches a fiery attack on symbolically important buildings at the city's southern

Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the city's main mosque, said more than 300 dead bodies were brought there on Saturday alone and 183 could be seen laying near the building waiting to be interred.

On some sides of the hotel, shards of broken glass littered the ground. Curtains that were knotted together - and doubled-up as ropes for people to escape - dangled out of several windows. Several rooms were charred as terrorists used

The blast occurred around midnight local time at Government House, where thousands of supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who have occupied the prime minister's compound since August in a bid to unseat him, were attending a rally.

Senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President Bush this week on a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated in Russia — an incursion that posed ...

Criminal defense lawyers in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties have plenty to keep them busy: several of the cities in the south Florida metro area have been ranked among the most dangerous in the country, according to a recent

Somali pirates holding a Saudi supertanker after the largest hijacking in maritime history have reduced their ransom demand to $15 million, an Islamist leader and regional maritime group both said on Monday.

A New York rabbi and his wife were among the dead in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, slain in a Jewish center that they ran, the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement confirmed Friday.

Five Indian sailors who were among the crew of a Japanese-owned cargo ship hijacked by pirates and held for two months before a ransom was paid said Monday their captivity was "total desperation." "I wish that no one else ever

Britain launched the first phase of a controversial new identity card scheme on Tuesday, forcing certain foreign nationals to start carrying the documents from later this week.

OPEC on Saturday prepared to defer a decision on a new supply cut amid signs that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are not happy with adherence to restraints agreed in the past two months.

Congo's main rebel leader asked a U.N. envoy Saturday to arrange a face-to-face meeting with government officials during a second round of talks aimed at bringing peace to eastern Congo.

A United Nations official says a rocket attack against a U.N. compound in Baghdad has killed three foreigners and wounded 14.

One passenger died as 10 heavy car crashes were reported overnight across Bulgaria, according to the data of the country`s Interior Ministry. Other 13 passengers were injured in the hits as four of them are in critical condition. In the

In a shocking revelation on late Friday night, it has been reported that one of the terrorists holed up in hotel Taj Mahal was doing his internship there as Trainee Chef for past 10 months. The revelation came after the

Policies of former president directly responsible for avoidable deaths of a third of a million people in South Africa

defense minister says radiation illnesses of those who worked on notorious tests must be recognised

16 feared dead and many wounded in gun and grenade attacks across India's financial capital

Cosa Nostra's skilled hitmen gain their training 10 meters below ground in sound proofed passages in Palermo