Sen. Joe Biden is about to take on a more prominent role in the Democratic campaign for the White House.

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign says the Democratic presidential candidate raised $66 million in August, making for another record fundraising month.

Hurricane Ike's deadly surge has kept thousands of evacuees holed up incramped quarters -- shelters, RVs, even a warehouse -- as they face theprospect of returning to flood-ravaged neighborhoods left withoutelectricity.

President Bush says he is going to Texas on Tuesday to express sympathy and lend support to victims of Hurricane Ike.

The outlook for Lehman Brothers' future seemed dim Sunday afterBarclays PLC withdrew its bid to buy the beleaguered investment bankand government officials and Wall Street bankers remained at an impasseabout a rescue plan.

A coordinated series of explosions struck a park and crowded shoppingareas across the Indian capital, killing at least 18 people andwounding at least 61 more. A Muslim militant group claimedresponsibility for the bombings.

The operators of the commuter train involved in the head-on crash in aLos Angeles suburb that killed at least 25 people Friday were quick tocite a cause: they said the train's engineer was responsible for thehorrific accident, the deadliest U.S.

U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday that experience in Iraq shows itwill take political and economic progress as well as military action totackle increased violence in Afghanistan.

Rescue crews canvassing neighborhoods with dump trucks, helicopters andairboats have saved nearly 2,000 residents along the Texas coast whoignored evacuation orders and stayed to face Hurricane Ike, authoritiessaid Sunday.

Gasoline prices surged again in the U.S. on Sunday, above $5 a gallonin some places, as oil companies, refiners and others began sorting outthe damage from Hurricane Ike's lashing of the petroleum-rich Gulf ofMexico and the region's mass of refineries.

Iraqi police on Sunday arrested five men suspected of involvement in the brutal abduction and killing on Saturday of a four-member team from the Al-Sharqiya television channel, police said. Two suspects were arrested as they were driving a car which

A suicide car bomb claimed by the Taliban killed two Afghan doctors and a driver working for the United Nations on Sunday, the UN said, a day after a provincial governor was assassination by a remote-controlled bomb. The UN team

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has vowed to resign after his party chooses his successor, has been dogged by graft scandals, wartime failings and abysmal approval ratings since taking office. His image took a further beating with police repeatedly

The trial of 19 alleged Darfur rebels accused of taking part in an unprecedented attack on the Sudanese capital in May was adjourned on Sunday after six defendants said they were minors. The judge at the special court in Khartoum

An Iraqi translator told a US soldier's pre-trial hearing Sunday about the gruesome murder of a detainee who was shot and later had his face disfigured by an incendiary grenade. The hearing of Staff Sergeant Hal Warner entered its second

The current negotiations between United States and Iraqi representatives over a Status of Forces agreement are not the first time that a Western power has sought the approval of local Arab leaders for the maintenance of foreign troops on its

The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock waves throughout the West and the former Soviet space - especially Ukraine. Indeed, Ukraine could be the next potential crisis. Georgia's increasingly pro-Western course, including growing ties to NATO, has been a

Hizbullah staged a mock battle on Saturday night to reenact the death of Hadi Nasrallah, son of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who died in a military operation against Israel 11 years ago. About 100 fighters took part, some acting

After extensive pressure from the ruling coalition, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf finally resigned and the people of Pakistan breathed a collective sigh of relief. But not for long. On August 25, Pakistan Muslim League's (PML-N) leader, Nawaz Sharif, pulled his

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir urged the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to serve all of Lebanon "without any discrimination or bias." Addressing LAF commander General Jean Kahwaji during a Sunday Mass at the seat of the Maronite Church in Bkirki,