MUMBAI, India - The militants waited in the shadows for the police van to pass, and when it slowed down in the narrow road, they sprayed it with gunfire. The gunmen opened the doors and dumped five slumped officers’ bodies into the streets, then piled into the van to continue their siege.
Indian officials said on Saturday that all of the attackers had now been killed or captured, about 59 hours after the attacks began. "All [combat] operations are over," Hasan Gafoor, Mumbai's police chief, said.
Militants stormed a series of high-profile targets late Wednesday in India’s financial capital, including the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a landmark restaurant, the main train station and a charitable hospital for women and children...
Dressed casually in a leather jacket and black scarf on Wednesday, Obama handed out food to the needy at a Chicago church with wife Michelle and their two daughters, shaking hands and jovially telling people "you can call me Barack." ..
In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National Intelligence Council offered its long-range strategic thinking about the military and economic challenges the U.S. will face from other countries over the next 17 years, as well as the environmental challenges ahead. The report also looks at technologies, and it includes some sweeping ideas about the future...
In addition to Mr Geithner, Mr Obama said former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will head his National Economic Council, while economist Christina Romer will lead the Council of Economic Advisors and Melody Barnes will be director of the Domestic Policy Council....
White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters after President George W. Bush’s meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak that there was an agreement to have the meeting but that announcement of the actual date in early December would be left up to China to make public...
Over the years, US manufacturers had been losing headway to Japanese rivals as motorists' tastes shifted from pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.....
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has said in a keynote speech that the country's large foreign currency, gold reserves and anti-crisis measures would prevent a sharp fall in the rouble....
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for allegedly dumping shares...
A state of emergency has been declared in Los Angeles, where wildfires are threatening the power supply. Around 10,000 residents have been placed under mandatory evacuation orders...
The government originally planned to restore credit flows by buying mortgage assets compromised by defaults, but Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday the plan would focus instead on recapitalizing financial institutions and supporting consumer credit....
News Conference Held: Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits management company which recently disclosed an extortionist is demanding money by threatening to expose millions of patient records the company holds, Wednesday said it has decided to offer US$1 million to nab the perpetrator...
After three weeks of searching Davis, the former plumber, found work as a meat cutter at a large grocery store. Problem is, the position pays only $7 per hour at first, compared to his previous $25...
If you can stomach living in Alaska for 12 months, you’ll be eligible to get a check from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Every year this fund, which gets its money by taking a cut of Alaska’s oil revenues, pays out upwards of $1,000 to every citizen of Alaska....
Its here: The recession is spreading as the credit crisis winds blow the radioactive waste further and further throughout the world. November and December should have the worst economic numbers associated with the six weeks of zero credit between mid-September and the end of October...
Few details were revealed as to their content but Iraq, the financial crisis and the issue of a smooth transition had all been expected to come up....
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, in remarks carried by the Interfax news agency, said if Washington halts its plans to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and accompanying radar in the Czech Republic, Russia won't need to place short-range Iskander missiles in its western Kaliningrad region.
"The day after the election, I had many more calls than usual from people looking for semi-automatic rifles," said David Greenberg, the owner of the Second Amendment Family Gun Shop, in Bisbee, Arizona, who sold out of AR-15 rifles in recent days.
