A global forecast by intelligence agencies says the group has alienated Muslim supporters with its indiscriminate killing and inattention to the problems of poverty, unemployment and education.

The decision is likely to be seen as a major repudiation of the Bush administration's effort to use the detention center as a way to avoid scrutiny by judges.

Makers of computer memory chips and flat-panel screens are at a disadvantage with their South Korean competitors as orders drop.

But Britain said the measures, which cover the period to 2013, did not go far enough and risked skewing markets.

Representative John Dingell of Michigan was ousted from his chairmanship of the influential Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday, giving Barack Obama an advantage in his plans to promote efforts to combat global warming.

As world stock markets tumbled this week to their lowest levels since 2003, traders and ordinary investors were asking the same question: When will it end?

Mindful that Russians have been traumatized by two other financial crises in the last two decades, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tried to assure the country Thursday that it would be able to weather the current one.

North Korea, a master of survival surrounded by bigger powers, has used the same tactics often in the past and may be particularly tempted to use them again.

The jury in the trial of three men accused of involvement in the killing the journalist Anna Politkovskaya did not demand that journalists be barred from the proceedings, a member of the jury said Thursday, contradicting a statement by a judge a day earlier when he closed the trial to reporters.

The price of a barrel of oil has shed close to $100 in four months in a stunning - and sudden - reversal, as an ailing global economy reduced its consumption.

David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music."

Several experts said the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps to build a bomb.

If our parents left India and trudged westward for us, then what does it mean when we choose to migrate to the place they forsook?

The biggest UN peacekeeping operation in the world will be increased temporarily to a little more than 20,000 troops and police officers once the reinforcements are deployed.

For the first time, scientists are talking about resurrecting an extinct species as if this longtime staple of science fiction were a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.

Is Barack Obama considering Hillary Clinton for secretary of state in order to get her off his back or as a prelude to protecting her back?

I got the swizzle stick out of my nose and the flight attendant said, 'I never saw anybody do that before.'

France's effort to keep its beautiful language alive, to turn back the rising tide of English and combat the American cultural tsunami has a certain doomed nobility about it.

A deadly cancer has preyed on the Tasmanian devil, causing it to be listed as endangered, but scientists have begun an experimental inoculation program.

Leaders are being forced to react publicly to their concerns. Officials are also tailoring traditional media-control techniques to the information age.