SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces have arrested three suspected al Qaeda militants who had been wounded in a raid that killed at least two members of the group on Monday, a security source said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Global financial regulation has changed little since the 2008 banking crisis, but that won't be the case much longer.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. retailers largely saw a strong finish to the 2009 holiday season even though sales fell at apparel chains and department stores in December, according to MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indicted Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam faces expanded charges of insider trading and allegations that he earned $36 million in illicit profits, double the amount previously alleged, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger's bag tested positive for explosives -- only to ultimately determine that the substance was honey.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he vowed urgent action to tighten air security.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co posted a 33 percent sales gain in December as U.S. auto sales ended 2009 on an upswing after a year when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt and China overtook the United States as the biggest car market.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A Central Intelligence Agency pilot who flew in the failed U.S.-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba died of cancer on Tuesday, his family said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said it had revoked the visa it had given a Nigerian man after his alleged attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day with explosives hidden in his underwear.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Revelations that a double agent linked to al Qaeda may have carried out last week's bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan suggests the group has achieved a new level of sophistication and may not be as weakened as U.S. officials had thought.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military school in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Wednesday, killing three soldiers, the military said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Hirohisa Fujii cannot be asked to stay on as Japan's finance minister and his successor is almost decided, Jiji news agency quoted an unidentified cabinet minister as saying on Wednesday.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces waging a campaign against militants have arrested three suspected al Qaeda militants who were wounded in a raid that killed two members of the group on Monday, a security source said on Wednesday.
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded another 14 people on Wednesday in Russia's southern region of Dagestan by detonating a car packed with explosives at a traffic police depot.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has received dozens of death threats from people who fear that Jewish settlements in the West Bank will be disbanded, a defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Cities across eastern and central China are rationing power for industry and urging residents to limit gas use after a wave of icy weather sent energy demand soaring while straining supplies of coal that were already tight.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking a high-tech protest boat in the frigid Southern Ocean on Wednesday, as tensions mounted over accusations of "spy flights" mounted from Australia.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano, last active in the 19th century, erupted on Tuesday, spewing ash and steam and prompting authorities to evacuate a small number of people from its slopes.
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GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China, saddled with the world's second largest tuberculosis burden after India, is fighting an uphill battle against drug-resistant forms of the disease which will only drain the country's health budget.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday dashed Western hopes for a swift agreement on a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying the issue requires more "time and patience."
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