ISLAMABAD, Sep. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — Taliban gunmen fired shots at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's motorcade near Islamabad's airport on Wednesday, but officials and police said he was not in it at the time. ... > full story
SEATTLE, Sep. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — A man shot and killed six people and wounded two more during a shooting spree that lasted a few hours and included a high-speed chase in a rural area north of Seattle, local police said on Tuesday. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Sep. 2, 2008 (Reuters) — A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda was indicted on Tuesday on federal charges of attempted murder and assault of U.S. soldiers during a confrontation in Afghanistan in July. ... > full story
KHARTOUM, Aug. 31, 2008 (Reuters) — Five Sudanese men accused of murdering a U.S. aid worker are religious extremists who plotted to attack foreigners at New Year's Eve gatherings, Sudanese prosecutors told a court on Sunday. ... > full story
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime. ... > full story
SPOKANE, Washington, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Joseph Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy. ... > full story
BOSTON, Aug. 15, 2008 (Reuters) — A man who passed himself off as a member of New York's Rockefeller oil dynasty is really a German who conned his way into U.S. high society, federal investigators said on Friday. ... > full story
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Aug. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — A U.S. general described by colleagues as a bully was barred on Thursday from further involvement in the war crimes trial of a young Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo, the second time the legal advisor has been blocked from a case. ... > full story
HOUSTON, Aug. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, Bill Gwatney, died in a hospital after being shot by a lone gunman at the party's headquarters in Little Rock, officials said on Wednesday. ... > full story
HOUSTON, Aug. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — A New Orleans judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against seven policeman accused of killing two people on a bridge amid the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ... > full story
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Katrina survivors still finding life hard in the Big Easy Aug. 13, 2008 (South China Morning Post) — Three years after Hurricane Katrina wrecked parts of New Orleans, all that separates the biggest successes and failures in the city's revival is a ...
Thailand Bans GTA IV Over Copycat Murder Aug. 4, 2008 (Gamasutra) — The Thai distributor of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV has halted sales of the game in the country, after a teenager reportedly admitted to ...
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