Israel's Chief Rabbis and a prominent rabbi calling for Jewish prayer and a synagogue on the Temple Mount have been invited to the White House for pre-Annapolis talks.
Businesses in the City of London are being urged by police to report any suspicious activity, amid concern that further terrorist attacks in the UK are being planned in the Square Mile.
The water level of Lake Mead, behind the Hoover Dam, has dropped 100 feet!
SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Hundreds of feet below ground, the primary water source for this provincial capital of more than two million people is steadily running dry. The underground water table is sinking about four feet a year. Municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater.
As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, global warming poses "a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism", warning that by the end of this century the only habitable continent left will be Antarctica.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan last night declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution and was expected to halt planned parliamentary elections for at least a year.
There is a lot of uncertainty in financial markets, but there is one bet that almost everyone seems to be making: sell the dollar.
Nearly all services, including drinking water and public transportation, were shut down as more than 900,000 people in the state of 2 million had their homes flooded, damaged or cut off.
Fears of more turmoil hitting global stock markets grew last night after it emerged that Citigroup, the world's biggest bank, has called an emergency board meeting for this weekend amid fears of escalating bad debts.
Bahrain's Crown Prince, Sheik Salman bin Isa al-Khalifa, said Friday that Iran is striving to acquire nuclear weaponry, Israel Radio reported.
The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday.
A so-called supermouse with extraordinary physical capabilities has been created by scientists.
As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.
Sen. Tom Coburn said Congress's deficit spending has become a moral issue surpassing abortion because it saddles future generations with massive debt before they're born.
The authorities in Mexico say as many as 700,000 people have been affected by heavy rains and severe flooding in the south-eastern state of Tabasco.