Pakistan arrested Zakiur ur-Rehman Lakhvi, operational leader of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with last week's Mumbai attack
Pakistani security forces raided
a camp used by the group yesterday. The New York Times reports on the connections between LeT and Pakistani intelligence.
It was also revealed that a prank call to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari almost set off a war between Pakistan and India.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may be losing support from Indian voters.
Barack Obama picked retired Gen. Eric Shinseki to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Shinseki is best known as an early critic of the Pentagon's Iraq war strategy.
Appearing on "Meet the Press," Obama vowed tougher financial regulations and said the U.S. financial malaise would worsen before it got better. The president-elect reiterated his support of a bailout for the auto industry despite the fact that he believes company executives made "strategic mistakes."
Obama is largely staying out of the ongoing indusry bailout debates, perhaps saving his ammunition for a much larger stimulus plan. If passed, his plan would include the largest investment in U.S. infrastructure since the 1950s.
Militants near Peshawar, Pakistan, destroyed 150 U.S. military vehicles meant for service in Afghanistan.
Envoy Christopher Hill is in Beijing leading the Bush administration's last attempt at negotiations with North Korea.
Thailand's main opposition party is working to form a government.
The shooting of a teenager by police has set of widespread rioting in Greece.
Scheduled anti-pirate patrols off the coast of Somalia will be the first naval operations conducted under the aegis of the European Union.
Contaminated pork from Ireland may have reached up to 25 countries.
Turnout was high in Ghana's national elections. The contest is going down to the wire.
Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak is spilling over into neighboring countries.
Ehud Olmert condemned last week's Hebron riots as a "pogrom" by Jewish settlers.
Blackwater guards suspected in a 2007 shooting will surrender to Iraqi authorities.
Eleven were killed in a shootout between drug traffickers and the police in Mexico City.
Canada's death toll in Afghanistan
reached 100.
The U.S. Senate will attempt to hammer out a bailout deal for the struggling auto industry.
9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Muhammed will appear at a pre-trial hearing in Guantanamo Bay. Victims' families will be in attendance.
The U.N. climate conference in Poznan starts its second week. Progress has been slow so far.
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