Rescuers search for dead after Minneapolis bridge collapses during rush hour. Senate may end era of secret chokeholds, Mae West holds, rotating holds, and other legislative wrestling moves. Robert Mugabe has finally achieved complete economic control, ending Zimbabwe's economy. Africa's oil-poor countries may want to
More than 65 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks today, as largest Sunni bloc walks away from coalition cabinet. Rumsfeld returns to Capitol Hill for first time since leaving office in order to testify in Pat Tillman cover-up inquiry. Positing what's next for Citizen Murdoch: A financial news
House passes vast ethics reform; lawmakers must disclose campaign funding, government spending, disrobe behind the privacy curtain. Military reports American death toll of 74 in July, the lowest number in any month this year. "People watch television because there is nothing else to do." More Afghans have TVs
Afghan police recover body of second South Korean hostage to be shot and killed by Taliban. Today marks the end of Britain's longest military operation--a 38-year police presence in Northern Ireland. U.N.-backed Cambodian genocide tribunal questions its first suspect, former head of Phnom Penh&
According to Novak, the U.S. and Turkey are capturing Kurdish leaders to forestall Turkey from invading Iraq. Rice rolls through Mid-East towns on a major arms-for-allies jaunt. Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup, and citizens ignored the threat of suicide bombers to celebrate with guns (four
Bush and Brown now BFF. Puerto Rico appeals to U.N. for greater economic autonomy from U.S. Russia swears it never sent an astronaut up drunk, though a little cognac now and then isn't so bad. DeLoreans re-enter production with a limited run of 20 new
Inside Baghdad's Rule of Law Complex, where dangerous suspects stand trial, and judges and their families live in safety. Employees plot against their coworkers, some tried to smuggle bombs into the computer department--Iraq's Ministry of Interior is a factional hotbed. The U.S. agency overseeing
Suicide bombing, rioting follow government's attempt to reopen Islamabad's Red Mosque. U.S. and E.U. finally settle how to share airline passenger data; next fight, visa waiver restrictions. Venture capitalists overcome their inhibitions and dip their toes into online "adult entertainment." Accidental explosion
Mueller contradicts Gonzales, says surveillance program was discussed at Ashcroft's bedside. New Nasa scandals: drunk pilots, sabotaged wires. How Japan's population has transformed from tree to kite. Before, it was all propaganda about the nation. Now it is propaganda about religion. Stories of artists in Iraq,
Latest Tour de France doping casualty is Michael Rasmussen, yellow jersey-bearer for the past nine days. Team Type 1 hopes to field an entire team of diabetic cyclists within five to seven years. They both saw the same thing at detonation--the bones in their arms. Former Marines remember
