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A Staten Island gas station attendant who had moved from Pakistan for a better life was shot in the back and killed during an apparent robbery attempt last night, police said.

The iconic red, white and blue Coney Island rocket that welcomed millions to Astroland for nearly five decades will remain in orbit. Astroland owner Carol Hill Albert donated the 71-foot rocket ship to the city Wednesday.

With the guarantee that President Obama had her back, Hillary Clinton began her reign at the State Department Thursday by putting the Mideast and Afghanistan at the top of a new "smart power" agenda.

Now we know why Blago has such big hair. It's to cover his great big empty head. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich fled to New York City on Sunday because he says he's being persecuted back home, like "Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi."

WASHINGTON - When President Obama introduced U.S. diplomats to their new boss last week, he called Afghanistan the "central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism."

U.S. Predator drones hit two suspected AlQaeda dens in Pakistan with Hellfire missiles Friday - the first cross-border strikes from Afghanistan on President Obama's watch.

President Barack Obama named former Richard Holbrooke as special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday.

After a whirlwind of galas surrounding his inauguration, Barack Obama begins his first full day as U.S. president. Wednesday with a full plate of reality staring him in the face. ''Tonight we celebrate, but tomorrow the work begins,'' Obama told troops at the Commander-in-Chief's Ball on Tuesday night -- one of 10 official events marking his inauguration.

A BARGAIN-lover's paradise in Kew Gardens Hills is set to close its doors - one more victim of the recession. National Wholesale Liquidators on Kissena Blvd. opened 18 years ago, offering everything from hardware to clothing and household goods.

Suspected Taliban militants bombed five schools in Pakistan's Swat valley Monday as part of a campaign against girls' education in the country's lawless northwest. Militants had ordered all girls' schools in the area closed by Jan. 15.

By morning of that first day, even before he awoke, the overseas markets - the Nikkei, the DAX, the FTSE 100 - had moved and the world had changed.

Pakistan reopened a major land supply route to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan that was briefly closed Monday after suspected insurgents killed a soldier and wounded 14, adding urgency to efforts to secure alternative supply lines.

James (Rocky) Robinson has always believed in his dreams. Now he also believes in miracles.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan Saturday - one by a suicide bomber who attacked the German Embassy in the capital, the other when a helicopter crash-landed under enemy fire. Six other American service members were injured.

Osama Bin Laden's son and possible successor Saad has left house arrest in Iran to join his father in Pakistan, President Bush's intelligence czar revealed Friday.

Almost 500 years ago, on the wall of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, characterizing as "madness" the notion that papal pardons could absolve individuals for their sins. As viewed from Rome, Luther had maligned, even defamed, the church. Luther was eventually excommunicated.

Hundreds of Taliban militants from Afghanistan crossed into northwestern Pakistan early Sunday and killed six paramilitary troops, underscoring a growing cooperation among radicals on both sides of the border.

A fifth bomb blast exploded at a theater in Lahore on Friday, where a group of actors were rehearsing for a play, according to local police.

The war in Gaza is the first chapter of a new era in the Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict is far from the region's dominant dispute. The Arab-Islamist conflict now overwhelms it - by a large margin.

Pakistani authorities "must have had" a hand in the deadly Mumbai siege, India's prime minister said Tuesday, stopping just short of directly accusing Islamabad of aiding the gunmen

No one can deny the fact that women continue to face a hostile environment in the country in the name of so-called traditions and social norms. The ...

A landmark US bill that recognised the role of Pakistan as US ally and the frontline state in combating terrorism and provided for $15 billion in ...

Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza has said that Pakistan needed support of the international community to strengthen democracy, alleviate ...

Pakistan's ambassador to US, Hussain Haqqani has said that so long US considers Pakistan its friend, US assistance would not stop and added that ...

Norway plans to contribute 250 million kroner (about 37.1 million U.S. dollars) over the next five years to help improve maternal and child health ...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Rubbishing the claims of Pakistan government that the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai terror attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Amir ...

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission. Blasphemy Charges For Man And Four Children. PAKISTAN: Four children and one man have been ...

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Friday told a press conference that there was no more confrontation between Pakistan and ...

The kin and the fans of comedian Raju Srivastava staged a massive protest and burnt the effigies of Pakistan and terrorism in Yashodanagar area ...

For the second time in the match, Nauman Habib and Waqar Ahmed shared all ten wickets to fall as Peshawar stormed to an innings and 45-run victory ...