Virginia Tech police are investigating a Youtube posting that threatens a mass shooting at the university, but believe there is no direct threat to the school.
Police informed students and faculty of the investigation in an e-mail late Wednesday night, saying that state police and the FBI are assisting. University spokesman Mark Owzcarski says authorities believe the threats may have originated in …
PARIS Leaders of the three warring parties in Bosnia signed apeace treaty today, formally ending Europe's worst conflict sinceWorld War II and opening the way for thousands of NATO troops to moveinto the former Yugoslavian republic.
But the ink on the treaty was barely dry when sporadic violenceflared again in Bosnia, with explosions in districts of Sarajevo,government troops firing on a French helicopter and Croat forcesclashing with pro-government Islamic fighters.
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President FranjoTudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic signed the accord inParis as leaders from major powers, including President …
As of Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at least 4,485 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action.
At least 3,527 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is one fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EST.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, …
A man opened fire on his stepdaughter's family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.
The 56-year-old man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages 5 and 6, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank …
PHILADELPHIA A trove of fossils recently discovered in Chinaoffer a snapshot of prehistoric life, including a chicken-likecreature with downy fluff and what might be the first egg ever foundinside a dinosaur.
Another specimen included the fossil jawbone of a mammal that adinosaur had just eaten.
"I think the potential of the field site is unbelievable,"paleontologist John H. Ostrom said last week. "Nowhere else in theworld are fossils from such a critical time so well-preserved."While many fossil sites only preserve the bones of ancientanimals, the fossil find last summer in northeastern China's Liaoningprovince preserved surface features such as claws, scales …
Why Barack Obama's book, published a decade ago but a best-seller only last fall, may be destined to become an American classic. By Mary Mitchell
Editors' Note: Barack Obama will take his U.S. Senate seat in the 109th Congress this month. Obama, 43, will be the only African American senator sitting in this 21st-century federal lawmaking body. Furthermore, he's only the fifth African American ever to serve as a U.S. senator.
Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, was published in 1995. As a result of publicity in 1990 when he became the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, he was asked to write a memoir by …
Hundreds of unionized workers rallied in Tokyo on Tuesday to protest massive job cuts, accusing the country's biggest companies of sacrificing jobs to protect profits.
The global financial crisis has forced some of Japan's corporate giants to take drastic measures including job cuts, suspending production, postponing projects and closing factories. Sony Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. are among the major employers to trim thousands of workers from their payrolls.
About 200 protesters waved banners and shouted slogans through loudspeakers outside the headquarters of the Nippon Keidanren _ Japan's largest business lobby group _ in Tokyo's main …
