Bush to hold talks with Turkish leader on Iraqi Kurds

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush on Monday faces crisis talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he vies to dissuade his "war on terror" ally from an incursion into Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels. Ahead of the meeting at the W... full story

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Putin urged to lead government after Kremlin

MOSCOW (AFP) - Months of uncertainty over Russia's future power structure ended Tuesday when President Vladimir's handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvede...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Twin bomb blasts kill 62 in Algiers

ALGIERS (AFP) - A twin car bomb strike rocked Algiers on Tuesday killing at least 62 people and devastating a UN office where staff were trapped for hours aft...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Serbia warns EU not to send mission to Kosovo

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serb Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned the European Union on Tuesday that sending a supervisory mission to the breakaway province ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Israeli ground troops kill five in Gaza Strip raid

GAZA (Reuters) - About 30 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles pushed into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sparking clashes with Palestinians that killed f...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Waterboarding useful but torture: ex-CIA interrogator

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials extracted valuable information from a terrorism suspect after he was subjected to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tec...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Congress has been stymied by Bush, Republicans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush wants it known the U.S. Congress has been asleep at the switch since Democrats took over in January. The only ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Subprime hotline has 45,000 calls in three days

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hotline for a program that aims to help about 1.2 million subprime borrowers received 45,000 calls in the three days after President ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Bible Belt state may be crucial in election

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Like many people in South Carolina, prison pastor Stan Kennedy is following the 2008 U.S. presidential race closely but h...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Russia's Medvedev backs Putin to become PM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, named by Russian President Vladimir Putin as his preferred successor, said on Tuesday he wanted Putin to become prime mini...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Twin car bombs kill 67 in Algiers

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Al Qaeda militants detonated twin car bombs in Algiers on Tuesday, killing up to 67 people in the bloodiest attack in the north ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Saints rough up emotional Falcons 34-14

ATLANTA - With Reggie Bush watching from the sideline, Drew Brees passed for 328 yards and three touchdowns as the New Orleans Saints bounced back from a devas...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Keys, Thurman among Nobel concert celebs

OSLO, Norway - Stars performing at a concert Tuesday honoring Nobel Peace laureates Al Gore and the United Nations climate panel said they hoped to draw attent...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Honda robots pair up to lend a hand

TOKYO - As if the idea of having one robot to serve you wasn't unusual enough, Honda says its humanoids are now ready to work in pairs — and they can even...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Colo. gunman may have warned of attacks

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Authorities believe the man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center posted an anti-Christian diatribe onlin...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Panel weighs easing old crack sentences

WASHINGTON - Buoyed by a Supreme Court ruling, some 19,500 federal inmates and their families, most of them black, are hoping the U.S. Sentencing Commission is...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Midwest plastered by more deadly ice

DES MOINES, Iowa - A thick glaze of ice brought down power lines and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of people, closed schools and canceled flights Tu...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Ex-CIA agent: Waterboarding OK'ed at top

WASHINGTON - The CIA's waterboarding of a top al-Qaida figure was approved at the top levels of the U.S. government, a former CIA agent said Tuesday as agency ...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Bush demands Iran explain nuke program

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday called on Iran to explain why it had a secretive nuclear weapons program, and warned that any such efforts must not be a...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Fed expected to cut interest rate today

WASHINGTON - Faced with a spreading mortgage crisis, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates for a third time and hint that even more rate cuts c...

updated Wed December 12, 2007

Car bombs in Algeria kill at least 22

ALGIERS, Algeria - Car bombs exploded minutes apart Tuesday in central Algiers, heavily damaging U.N. offices and partly ripping the facade off a new governmen...