PESHAWAR--At least 10 people including a local mayor were killed and 20 others wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber blew up a car in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, officials and police said.
WASHINGTON DC, United States—The US House of Representatives late Saturday approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top domestic priority.
PORT SAID, Egypt—With cheap labor, investment incentives, and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home.
WASHINGTON DC, United States—Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.
The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake.
Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday.
President Barack Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to "vote yes" Saturday on the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century.
Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest of the country, the defense ministry said Saturday.
