World Aug 04 Al-Qaida Leader Threatens U.S., Britain in Tape Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's second-in-command, said in a videotape broadcast Thursday that attacks against Britain and the United States would not stop until British and American troops withdrew from Iraq and other Muslim nations.
Science Aug 03 Astronaut Pulls Strips From Shuttle's Tile Belly Astronaut Stephen Robinson gently plucked two protruding and potentially dangerous fiber strips from the space shuttle Discovery's underbelly Wednesday in an unprecedented emergency repair.
Nation Aug 02 Air France Jet Crashes While Landing in Toronto, Passengers Escape An Air France jet carrying more than 300 passengers burst into flames Tuesday after sliding off the runway during an intense thunderstorm at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.
Economy Aug 02 Chinese Oil Company Withdraws Unocal Bid Amid Political Pressure Chinese oil company CNOOC withdrew its $18.5 billion bid for U.S. oil and gas producer Unocal on Tuesday, surrendering to political opposition and leaving American oil company Chevron poised to take over Unocal for about $17.3 billion.
Nation Aug 02 6 Marines Killed in Iraq, U.S. Death Toll Tops 1,800 American military officials on Tuesday announced that six U.S. Marines were killed in combat in western Iraq, pushing the death toll for U.S. military personnel over 1,800.
Politics Aug 01 Riots Follow Death of Sudanese Vice President Riots broke out in the Sudanese capital Monday after the country's newly installed vice president, who joined the government after agreeing to a peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war, was killed in a helicopter crash.
Economy Aug 01 South Africa to Speed Up Land Reform, End Market-based System A national land summit, called by the South African government to assess the success of its program to return land confiscated during apartheid to black farmers, ended Sunday with a resolution.
Politics Aug 01 Saudi Arabia King Fahd Dies, Replaced by Half Brother Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who moved the world's largest oil producing country closer to the United States, died Monday at the age of 84.
World Aug 01 President Bush Appoints John Bolton to United Nations Despite ongoing opposition by many Democrats, President Bush on Monday circumvented Senate approval and appointed embattled former State Department official John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Politics Jul 29 Police Reportedly Arrest Final Three Suspected London Bombers In a series of raids in London and Rome Friday, police arrested the final three of four men suspected of having carried backpack bombs on to trains and a bus during the failed terrorist attacks in London on July 21.