Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans.

In this citizen photograph taken Sunday, June 28, 2009, a supporter of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, flashes victory sign during a gathering near the Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran.

Media coverage of Michael Jackson's death began receding following an extraordinary worldwide outpouring, with the shock wearing off and the pace of new developments slowing.

Next > MINNEAPOLIS a ' The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of a tight U.S. Senate race over Republican Norm Coleman, which should give Democrats the 60-seat majority they need to overcome procedural obstacles

Embattled County Commissioner says "sometimes you have to fight fire with fire." Monday, June 29, 2009 Hear Dimora's entire press conference - Jimmy Dimora has decided he's not just going to sit in the sidelines - he's getting in the

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is considering running for the governor of New York in 2010.

Despite questions about the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election and his belligerent anti-American rhetoric, the White House remains open to discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

U.S. President Barack Obama announces federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Hamid Karzai accused Afghan guards working for U.S. coalition forces of killing a provincial police chief and at least four other security officers during a gunbattle outside a government office Monday.

In his book Shadow War -- The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Pakistani journalist Arif Jamal, unveils the involvement of Pakistan in the insurgency and provides some new and quite startling details of the jihad that Pakistan waged against

The report by security expert Andrew Cockburn also says that the US ignored disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan's proliferation activities in the 1990s.

Pakistan on Monday said its anti-Taliban operations in Swat had entered the final phase with troops having "totally dismantled" the militants' infrastructure, even as over 30 rebels and 16 soldiers were killed in fresh fighting in the unruly North West

After an unprecedented eight months of legal wrangling and pouring overhundreds upon hundreds of contested ballots, the Minnesota SupremeCourt has paved the way for Democrat Al Franken to fill the state's long-vacantSenate seat, CBS station WCCO-TV reports.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his Argentine mistress his "soul mate" Tuesday, but said that he would try to fall back in love with his wife. Sanford also admitted that he saw his mistress more times than previously disclosed,

A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people crashed in the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros. Yemeni officials said a teenage girl survived. The crash came two years after

Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's background track. Left alone to protect the capital Tuesday were thousands of Iraqi troops and police manning checkpoints, with

A spokesman for Detroit schools says five teenagers have been shot near a high school but their conditions aren't known. Detroit Public Schools spokesman Steve Wasko says they were shot Tuesday about a block away from Cody High School shortly

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HOLYROOD and the Search for Scotland's Soul was a BBC Scotland special to mark ten years of Scottish devolution and attempt to understand what happened, what it means and

DEAR Consultant for Patient-Centred Care, I want to draw your attention to our friend (whom we will call Patience) who recently lost her life while being cared for by