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Kabul - US President Barack Obama assured his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, of the US commitment to the fight against terrorism in the region during their first telephone talk since Obama's inauguration, the Afghan president's office said Wednesday.
The two presidents on Tuesday night talked about a review of US policy in...
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Washington - US intelligence officials helped India and Pakistan swap top secret intelligence in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The intelligence sharing between the two countries, whose relationship is often shaky at best, was facilitated by the Central...
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Washington - As if the financial news wasn't bad enough.
Scientists meeting in Chicago reported about how fast greenhouse gases are rising and how eating less beef and more chicken would help reduce global warming.
But there were also bright spots at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science gathering...
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New York - A commercial airliner crashed into a house late Thursday in Buffalo, New York, the Buffalo News daily reported on its website.
A local government official described it as a Continental Airlines plane with about 50 people on board, the paper said. Television footage from the scene showed a huge blaze at the scene.
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Washington - Flour, frosting and fondant are the ingredients artist and baker Zilly Rosen will use to create portraits of US presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.
Washington's National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are co-hosting their fourth annual Presidential Family Fun Day on Saturday.
The...
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New York - A commercial airliner struck a house and burst into flames late Thursday outside Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people, local officials said.
The dead included 48 people on the plane and one person on the ground.
The crash occurred at 10.17 pm (0417 Friday GMT) in the rural village of Clarence Center, about 10...
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Washington/Springfield, Illinois - Historic figures often fade over time, but slain president Abraham Lincoln infuses American daily life like few other figures in US history.
Even without last months' inauguration of the first black president of the United States, the celebration of Lincoln's 200th birthday on Thursday would have...
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Los Angeles - A panel of federal judges indicated Monday that they would order the state of California to release up to 58,000 prisoners to relieve extreme overcrowding in the state's penitentiaries.
The panel said that overcrowding in the cash-strapped prison system was unconstitutional, because it causes inmates to die regularly...
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Washington - The US Army reported Thursday that the number of suicides in January could be as high as 24, just days after the service revealed that 2008 was one of the worst years in decades for soldiers taking their own lives.
The US Army has confirmed there were seven suicides last month, but noted there are an additional 17...
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Washington - On his 16th full day in office, US President Barack Obama finally got to play with the presidential "toys," taking a small reward for the hours of negotiation he's put into an urgent economic rescue package now stalled in the US Senate.
For the first time on Thursday evening, he used the presidential...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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