ORLANDO, Florida – An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.
BARCELONA - Top-level political clout will now decide the outcome of the much-trumpeted Copenhagen conference on tackling the peril of climate change, now just a month away.
WASHINGTON – The US jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
WHITE PLAINS, New York – Nowhere in the United States has more doctors at its beck and call than White Plains, one of the wealthiest cities in the nation.
NEW YORK – Zvi Goffer could have passed for Tony Soprano when he warned confederates in his alleged insider-trading ring that "someone's going to jail."
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani soldiers entered the Taliban headquarters in South Waziristan on Friday, the military said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital.
UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved an Arab-sponsored resolution urging Israel and the Palestinians to probe war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza nearly a year ago.