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US, British diplomats in confrontation with Zimbabwe police
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Zimbabwe police detained US and British diplomats Thursday in a dramatic confrontation at a roadblock following what the government described as a gathering at the home of an opposition supporter.
The convoy of three vehicles was initially stopped at a checkpoint in the Bindura region before making a getaway and then later pulled over again, US embassy officials said.
"The police forced them...
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Two top U.S. Air Force officials resigning: source
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U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael
Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Moseley intend to
resign, a congressional source told Reuters on Thursday.
The resignations come after a series of concerns about
recent Air Force matters, including a controversial award of a
contract for the Air Force's elite Thunderbirds flying group
and the service's mistaken shipment of fuses for nuclear
missiles to Taiwan in 2006, the source...
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Accused 9-11 mastermind welcomes death penalty
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The
accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood
in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to
Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty.
"This is what I wish, to be martyred," Pakistani captive
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al Qaeda operative
in U.S. custody, told the Guantanamo war crimes court.
He and four accused co-conspirators appeared in court...
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UN Security Council visits Darfur
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The United Nations Security Council got a firsthand look Thursday at the conflict in Darfur, which has killed some 300,000 people, forced 2.5 million to flee their homes, and shows no sign of a political solution.
Facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, the council delegation met with officials from the...
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Astronauts in midst of spacewalk to outfit lab
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Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Thursday for a spacewalk to spruce up the orbiting outpost's newest room — a $1 billion Japanese lab.
In the early part of their excursion, space shuttle Discovery crew members Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. set up two TV cameras around the Kibo lab's robotic arm. Japanese flight controllers were to test the...
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