India’s Congress-led government announced on Friday a 15-billion-dollar loan bailout for small farmers in a populist pre-election budget targeting the party’s traditional poor rural supporters.

Pakistan’s two main opposition parties announced Thursday that they would work together to form a coalition government.

WASHINGTON — Just hours after a Navy missile interceptor struck a dying spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, a senior military officer expressed high confidence early Thursday that a tank filled with toxic rocket fuel had been breached.

The heart of the story is the unexplainable absence from the national and traditional celebrations of Republic Day and the annual lunar event.

ACCOKEEK, Md. — A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight people and injuring at least five, police said.

Dreaming of a good life in Britain, Satwant Kaur landed at Heathrow to start her new life with her husband, far removed from her village in Punjab

A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then turned shot and killed himself, said university president John Peters.

Hillary Clinton greets a young supporter at a campaign stop in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday. Poll results released Thursday give a much-needed boost to her campaign after a string of losses.

President Bush, acting on the advice of his national security advisers, has decided to attempt to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite that is expected to crash to Earth early next month, a spokesman for the National Security Council said today.

They say that the difference between how democracy in Europe has evolved compared to that of the United States is that in Europe the government is afraid of the People whereas in the United States the People are afraid of the government. That’s a dangerous state of affairs and it looks like it’s going to get worse.