Accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden said "the battle has moved to inside America" in the only television interview he's granted since the September 11 attacks . The interview was conducted by the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera network in late October
Top corporate, political and religious leaders opened the World Economic Forum's annual meeting on Thursday in New York, guarded by barricades and thousands of police while discussing global business and security. The five-day meeting, moved to Manhattan
An e-mail purportedly sent by the Pakistani group threatening to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said it would extend the deadline to kill him to Friday. There has been no independent confirmation that the group which sent the latest e-mail
A suggestion that Afghanistan temporarily dollarize its economy has sparked chaotic scenes on the informal currency exchanges in Kabul, wiping about 25% off the value of the Afghani currency. The proposal to introduce the U.
Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard has proposed offering payments to Afghan asylum seekers to assist them resettle in Afghanistan. Howard made the announcement after a meeting with Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai in New York on Wednesday.
Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai appealed for an extension of the security force in Afghanistan during a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday. Blair emphasised that Britain's role as leader of the force had a strict time lim
The Wall Street Journal's managing editor made an impassioned plea Thursday for the release of one of the newspaper's reporters, a day after his Pakistani captors threatened to kill him. Israel on Thursday denied the kidnappers' accusation that Pearl work
Germany's parliament has voted to allow limited imports of human embryo cells for research, in an issue that has split the country. Experimentation with embryonic stem cells is disputed because they come from embryos destined to be discarded after test-tu
Iran was the first country to respond to U.S.
The kidnappers of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan claim their hostage is an agent for Israel and have threatened to kill him within 24 hours if their demands are not met. They also have warned American journalists in Pakistan to get out of the
President Bush urged Americans late on January 29 to be patient with the war on terrorism, to be steadfast in the protection of the United States and to know that creating new jobs is the best cure for the U.S.
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At least 12 people, including several Port Authority employees, have been charged with stealing money intended for victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney said. Most were posing as v
Enron Corp. named a restructuring specialist as interim chief executive on Tuesday who vowed to revive the fallen energy trading giant even though analysts say it is likely to be liquidated.
Former employees of Enron Corp. who lost millions of dollars in retirement funds when the energy trading giant collapsed sued on Monday, while the wife of former CEO Kenneth Lay sobbed on national television and said her family has lost its fortune.
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has ordered a sweeping cabinet reshuffle amid an ongoing political scandal in which senior government officials and a close relative to the president has been implicated. The new line-up involves 15 ministers and presid
US President George W Bush has pledged an extra $50m in credit for reconstruction projects in war-ravaged Afghanistan and training for a national army and police force there. "The United States will continue to be a friend to the Afghan people and all the
Roman Catholic lawyers should refuse to handle divorce cases, Pope John Paul has said.
The government of Iraq has invited a United Nations human rights expert to visit the country in what will be the first such mission in 10 years. Iraq banned envoys from visiting the country in 1992 following damning reports about human rights abuses.
US Forces in Afghanistan have detained two more Britons believed to have been fighting for Osama bin Laden. The duo, one named as Ruhal Ahmed from the West Midlands, are being held in the eastern city of Kandahar in Afghanistan where they are being questi
The Bulgarian Yogurt is now a Protected Designation of Origin in the EU
Bulgaria is in the Top 25 Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves
