Pakistan PM vows to free judges

New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani has said he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule, minutes after being elected by MPs. President Pervez Musharraf in November sacked dozens of judges as the Supreme Court was set to rul

“Plan Mexico” Claims its First Victims in the Murky Floodwaters of Tabasco

Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco State, is currently underwater. The heaviest rains in memory have thrust the waters of at least seven rivers in the State above their banks. In many neighborhoods in the capital, rooftops are the only thing peekin

Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie Is In Iraq

Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad on Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees. The actress said there needs to be a more coherent plan as the more than 2 million internally displaced

Angelina Arrives in Baghdad

Angelina Jolie flew to Amman, Jordan this week and decided to stop in Iraq while she was in the neighborhood. She did an interview with CNN this morning from Baghdad and said she felt compelled to visit the war-torn region to bring attention to the p

Witness: 50 burn to death in Kenya church

A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people as the convulsion of bloodshed continued after the disputed vote that gave the president a second term. The opposition leader acc

Top US government research labs infiltrated by hackers

Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation's leading military research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no clas