Barack Obama's campaign is open to paying off some of the more than $20 million in debt accrued by defeated rival Hillary Clinton, a top adviser said. ``Certainly that is something that would be on the table,'' the adviser, former Senate Majority
Sen. Barack Obama met with Sen. Hillary Clinton at an undisclosed location in Washington on Thursday, sources close to his campaign said. CNN's Candy Crowley confirmed that the two had wrapped up a meeting Thursday night regarding plans for bringing
At least 20 commuters were killed and more than 40 wounded when an explosion hit a crowded bus in the capital of Sri Lanka on Friday, police said. Emergency crews were rushing the wounded to a government hospital, and police said they feared the deat
Attacks by coalition and Afghan forces have killed more than 10 Taliban in Afghanistan. Faridullah Khan, deputy provincial police chief of the southern province of Zabul, says nine Taliban were killed in airstrikes after militants launched an early m
Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch. But last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it wa
Authorities expected water to begin draining Thursday from a lake created by last month's devastating earthquake in southwestern China. But continuing aftershocks remain a concern: they could destabilize the rock and soil that form a quake-created d
World leaders have made extraordinary commitments to short-term food crisis solutions but more work is needed on long-term solutions, the head of the United Nations food agency said Thursday. Countries and delegations pledged more than $1 billion in
埃及首席考古学家、埃及古文物最高管理委员会秘书长扎希哈瓦斯当日宣布，他已经确认开罗南部一个风化严重的金字塔为古埃及第五王朝法老门考胡尔的陵墓。 Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the missing pyramid of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road w
2月9日，土耳其议会通过了由执政党正义与发展党支持的上述修正案。但是，土耳其主要反对党共和人民党和民主左翼党以这一修正案违反世俗原则为由向土耳其宪法法院提出诉讼，要求取消这一修正案。 Turkey's top court has upheld a ban on wearing Muslim headscarves at
Turkey's Constitutional Court is expected to rule Thursday on an opposition motion to keep Muslim head scarves off university campuses -- a ruling that could hold ominous portents for the Islamic-oriented government. The court judges were assembled
Zimbabwe's opposition presidential candidate has resumed campaigning after spending nine hours in police detention in the country's second main city. Morgan Tsvangirai's party said in a statement Thursday that Tsvangirai had left Bulawayo to conti
The merits of increasing biofuel production in the middle of a crisis over skyrocketing food prices was being hotly debated at a United Nations summit, but the top U.S. delegate said Wednesday that consensus on the issue was possible. U.S. Agricultu
