Four persons were killed and five others injured today in a missile strike by a suspected US drone in Pakistan's south Waziristan tribal region, a stronghold of the local Taliban led by Baitullah Mehsud.

the Tamil film industry is lending its support to the efforts by the state parties to bring focus back on the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils by calling for a protest rally on Sunday. Over 2,000 people, including top stars,

A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Sri Lanka to settle the ethnic issue through dialogue, Colombo made it clear that it will keep in mind his observations while dealing with the situation. "It will presumptuous for me to

W hile the Pentagon's budget has risen to heights not seen since World War II, US diplomatic and foreign aid assets have largely atrophied and must be quickly rebuilt by any new administration that takes office in January, according to

A s the Washington Post reported yesterday, the US Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed that he was involved, with American citizen Jose Padilla , in a plot to detonate a

A lmost eight months after the US followed by most NATO members recognized the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo as a dependent state , the Serbian government finally did something about it. On October 8, the UN General Assembly approved

A few glass panes were broken and you call that terrorism. In Karnataka not a single person was injured. What are these people talking about? It is ridiculous. Glass panes of cinema theatres are broken due to certain disputes. Can

The Alaska Attorney General's Office received a formal complaint yesterday charging that Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin violated the law when she failed to issue a proclamation for the state's Juneteenth Day in 2007 (PRWeb Oct 16, 2008) Read the full

U.S. Elections go Global. The polls for the U.S. Presidential election opened today, when all the countries of the world will have a voice in the outcome of the next presidential election: McCain or Obama. From now until November 4th,

Anytime Costumes, a leading online retailer of costumes, released preliminary results today on which political mask costume constituents favor this Halloween--Barack Obama or John McCain. (PRWeb Oct 16, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1480824.htm

More than 100 Internet experts who serve as judges in the annual WebAward competition have reviewed and voted for which president hopeful has the better Website. (PRWeb Oct 16, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1470814.htm

Frank Luntz: Early in the debate these people thought McCain was doing better, by the end of the debate Obama seemed to finish better. Brit. Brit Hume: Question -- you said that none of the people came in there for

I... don't know what this is. There are no words there.

Here's a clip of about 90 seconds worth of John McCain's condescending, snotty, and childish grimaces, grunts, and eye rolls that turned off so many voters during tonight's debate. I'm planning on using some of this video to make a

CNN poll: Obama's connection to William Ayers matters to you... Great Deal 23 Somewhat 14 Not Much 11 Not At All 51 So let's see, the crazy NRO set is about 23 percent of the country, which also -- by

Oh, my. Caption contest, anyone?

MediaCurves scores it for Obama: That's comparable to the first two debates. Now,everyone is skeptical of the exact insta-poll numbers, but so far, every time there's an insta-poll, the trackers confirm it a few days later. We'll find out by

If it wasn't for the snap polls, the pundits would be proclaiming this night a glorious victory for McCain. John King, who gave McCain an 18-15 victory in his debate scorecard, was just on ranting against the snap polls, saying

So the CNN pundits kept harping on the fact that their snap poll gave Dems a 10-point sample advantage, thus supposedly rendering it less accurate. Well, now they've broken it down: Who did the best job in the debate? Independents

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