India: Pakistan must take 'strong action'

India formally demanded that Pakistan take "strong action" against the people behind the Mumbai attacks.

Opinion: BCS should reconsider 'plus-one' — fast

Opinion: Plan would go long way toward fixing system that's leaking credibility badly

Thai PM unable to quell crisis

An explosion killed one anti-government protester and wounded 22 others at Bangkok's blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, an emergency services official said.

Obama names Clinton to top role

President-elect Barack Obama announced former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his choice for secretary of state Monday and also said he would keep Robert Gates as defense minister.

Hudson's in-law arrested in deaths

Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew.

Panel: Biological attack likely by 2013
The U.S. can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

It's official: U.S. is in recession
A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year.

U.S. deaths in Afghanistan drop sharply

One American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a dramatic drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed in  part to their campaign against insurgents.

Bombs kill more than 30 in Iraq

Suicide bombers struck Monday near a Baghdad police academy and in Mosul against a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol, killing more than people, Iraqi officials said.

AP: Feds ignored meltdown warnings

The Bush administration ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.