WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system to be announced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives will include a surtax on millionaires of 5.4 percent, congressional sources said. The tax rate is...
A double-decker sports plane has crashed into a car after plunging from the air. The pilot was performing aerial acrobatic manoeuvres and struck the family car, which was parked on a road near the airfield.
Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.
A German chef has blown off his hands while experimenting with a Heston Blumenthal-style cooking technique. The man was working on a recipe involving liquid nitrogen when there was \"a huge explosion\". One of the 24-year-old\'s hands was instantly torn off by the force of the blast, while the other was later amputated in hospital.
The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, a security company said Tuesday.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67. The \"doolies,\" members of the incoming freshman class, are among about 1,300 cadets who arrived recently for their first weeks of military training.
The program was designed after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the plans were never carried out before Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled it last month.
A former U.S. intelligence agent said in a report published Monday that terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to simulated drowning months before the Bush administration’s Department of Justice had written memos approving the use of waterboarding. The claim deals a major blow to the Bush administration\'s defenses of torture
The U.S. military in Iraq says two soldiers have been charged with filming and photographing female members of their unit while they were taking showers and then distributing the video and images.
The Department of Homeland Security recently issued a chilling report: Americans, it said, can expect an upsurge in "rightwing extremism" from White nationalists, militias, and groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, of course, has had a hand in some of the nation\'s most infamous acts of racial terror and murder.
The news that Metropolitan police officers patrolling the nation\'s capital may soon carry GPS tracking equipment has been overshadowed by shock revelations that uniform-mounted video cams have \"caught fire\" in use.
A group of doctors in the UK are mounting a legal and political campaign to overturn the suicide verdict in the death of a British doctor who was found dead shortly after exposing falsehoods about the justification for the Iraq war.
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - With U.S. unemployment at a 20-year high, some Americans are working for free while looking for a job, but experts are split over whether it is a sign of dedication or desperation. Unpaid job seekers can...
A high profile Sudanese woman journalist is facing 40 lashes after being accused of wearing \'indecent\' clothes, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences against Islamic law.
Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II. There was no immediate word on when the trial of the 89-year-old retired car worker, who was deported from the United States in May, might begin.