Jordan says investigators have concluded that al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind the hotel bombings in Amman during the week that killed 57 people. "The investigation has arrived at the conclusion that al-Qaeda was behind the attacks and specifically Abu Musab

A Brazilian-made car that burns both gasoline and alcohol processed from corn had its unveiling here ahead of the first shipment of thousands of vehicles to the United States.

A Boeing 777 plane has broken the world record for the longest flight by a commercial jet when it landed at London's Heathrow airport on a flight from Hong Kong via the Pacific.

Microscopic particles honeycombed with holes only nanometers wide soon could help purify industrial runoff, coal plant smoke, crude oil and drinking water of toxic metals, experts told UPI's Nano World.

It's normal for your muscles to lose tone when you sleep—that's why people in meetings nod off so amusingly. But in as many as 10 percent of middle-aged and older adults, the throat muscles relax so much that the airway

Next week will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of The Sound of Music, which won five Academy Awards and remains one of the most popular family films of all time. A special-edition DVD is being released to mark

Wall Street is on inflation watch this week. With less than three months left in Alan Greenspan's tenure at the Federal Reserve Board, many on Wall Street wonder whether Chairman Greenspan might raise interest rates by half a percentage point

PARIS—Car burnings and vandalism have declined under state-of-emergency measures enacted Wednesday and a heavy police presence. The 15th consecutive night of violence saw fewer skirmishes and fewer cars burned—463, down from 482 the previous night, police said.

PARIS—Burning automobiles have long been a symbol of civil disobedience and an expression of anger by the underprivileged in France. The carcasses of thousands of cars that littered the landscape last week were testimony to the deep social and economic

Safeway brand frugal for Alito; don't be a DoD meeting "terrorist"; hitting back at war critics; Ted Kennedy has a future in TV politics; Clinton Inc. sent to fix Ukraine crisis; "made in China" not just for Wal-Mart; Greenpeace may

Marshall Ramsey cartoon on Chirac as French toast

The procession to the graves began just after 3 p.m. The broken bodies had all been washed, in accordance with Muslim tradition, indicating that they would encounter God washed clean of sin. In a quiet corner of lonely Sahab Cemetery,

Return of the Architect has Washington guessing; meanwhile, a train wreck on Capitol Hill; maybe a teensy troop pullout next year? Chalabi: They love me, they love me not

An election goose egg for Schwarzenegger; good gubernatorial news for Democrats; a comeback in Motown; fiscal disaster down on the bayou; different designs on life's origins

Second-term presidents are no strangers to scandal. Richard Nixon had Watergate. Bill Clinton had Monica Lewinsky. Now President Bush has the CIA leak case, exacerbating the travails that have marked his fifth year in the White House, from growing questions

BERLIN--In the cars and buildings afire across France, many economists see not only the rage of a disaffected generation but the death of a particularly European dream. For the 40 years after World War II, much of western Europe embodied

When French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited one of the crime-infested high-rise housing projects outside Paris to see how the government's measures against violence were working out, the answer was apparent: not so well. He was pelted with bottles and

LONDON--The riots that spread beyond the densely Muslim suburbs of Paris into other French cities and even into neighboring countries have confirmed many people's worst fears about growing alienation and extremism among the rising generation of Europe's roughly 14 million-member

A generation ago, it shall be recalled, the streets and the gangs of New York City gave us a memorable word for a riot of glee and mayhem: Wilding, it was called. Now, there is wilding in the banlieues of