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U.S. start-up airline Virgin America finally began selling tickets Thursday for its inaugural flights from San Francisco to New York and Los Angeles, read more »
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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's ambassador to Baghdad has confirmed that the United States and Iran will discuss the security situation in Iraq on Tuesday in B read more »
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 30 -- Pakistan will do what it takes to eliminate extremists operating in the country for its own sake, not because of risi read more »
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The bridge that lies crumpled in the Mississippi River is the latest link to fail in a national highway system rapidly deteriorating under the strain read more »
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MANILA (Reuters) - North Korea demanded on Thursday the United States remove it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism before further progress read more »
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COOLUM, Australia -- Finance ministers from 21 Pacific Rim economies were mainly upbeat that the fallout from the U.S. subprime-mortgage-market meltd read more »
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Editors note: The following letter from General Petraeus, released earlier today, is addressed to the troops serving in Iraq.

Soldiers, Sailors, A read more »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has obtained a copy of a purported new videotape of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and is studying it, U. read more »
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We have only begun to see the reverberations of the mortgage meltdown. They will be as sweeping and mindboggling as global warming or an earthquake m read more »
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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) -- Ronaldinho ran onto the field, five minutes after the rest of his Brazilian teammates, and the crowd of 2,300 that came to w read more »
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CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden will appear for the second time in a week in a new video to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, presenting t read more »
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The top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, has recommended that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the read more »
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A temporary ruling allowing travel without a passport between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, is to be waived this month. The Departm read more »
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By Waleed Ibrahim and Mussab Al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the read more »
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — After years of favoring the hands-off doctrine of the Bush administration, some of the nation’s biggest industries are pushing read more »
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(AP) Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday the government will hit the current debt ceiling on Oct. 1.

He sought quick actio read more »
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A woman uses free wireless internet access at Union Square in San Francisco, California, in 2006. Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide f read more »
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The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the read more »
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YANGON, Myanmar - At least nine people, including a Japanese national, were killed Thursday when Myanmar soldiers fired on protesters, leading to new read more »