Vietnamese diaspora criminal gangs got into the marijuana cultivation business in North America in the 1980s.
The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, also known as the Currahees, is one of 10 brigade combat teams that the Army will shut down between now and 2015.
Ahead of a meeting with US President Barack Obama here Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made yet another attempt to draw Washington into the Kashmir dispute, but once again found no takers.
The gunman started shooting on Monday because he was upset he didn't get a refund of an admission charge.
Wang Gongquan was a supporter of the New Citizens Movement, a loose network of activists.
The Federal Reserve should be "extraordinarily careful" about hiking interest rates to head off potential risks to financial stability, a top US central banker said on Friday, warning about consequences to the economy.
The idea that Congress could fail to raise the $16.7 trillion US borrowing limit is a "political weapon of mass destruction," Buffett told cable television network CNBC.
US Senate leaders announced a deal on Wednesday to end a political crisis that partially shut down the federal government and brought the world's biggest economy close to a debt default that economists said threatened financial calamity.
Given the name Cyrus, after one of his rescuers, the male eastern grey kangaroo was injured by a vehicle on a nearby road.
Businesses should play a bigger role in helping to save depleted fish stocks as part of efforts to prevent irreversible damage to the oceans, a World-Bank backed report said on Wednesday.
Scientists have discovered a new species of arapaima - a giant torpedo-shaped fish - in the central Amazon waters of Brazil.
The governor of the eastern Afghan province of Logar, Arsala Jamal was killed and at least 15 civilians were wounded on Tuesday morning in a bomb attack in a mosque at Pul-e-Alam, the provincial capital.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite withholding most military aid to Egypt until it makes progress on democracy and human rights, the U.S. government is still tying itself in knots over whether to describe July's army overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi as a "coup." The administration's latest rhetorical gymnastics came to light when U.S
A German couple's marriage got off to a rocky start when the groom forgot his bride at a highway gas station on the way home from their honeymoon, only noticing she was missing after hours had passed.
The incident occurred in Suleman Khel area, a suburban rural locality here in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the Congress to end a partial government shutdown and assured the international community that the budget impasse will be resolved shortly.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S. Capitol ended in gunfire on Thursday when law enforcement shot and killed the driver as lawmakers and aides huddled in a lockdown. The identity of the driver - a woman - was not released
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S. Capitol ended in gunfire on Thursday when law enforcement officers shot and killed the driver as lawmakers and aides huddled in a lockdown
The commander of Iran's cyber warfare programme has been found dead with two bullet wounds near his heart in a suspected assassination, according to media reports today.
The US State Department says three Venezuelan diplomats are being expelled in response to a decision by the Venezuelan government to expel three U.S. officials there.
JPMorgan Chase & Co's possible $11 billion settlement of government mortgage probes has been complicated by a dispute with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp over responsibility for losses at the former Washington Mutual Inc, said people familiar with the matter.
The incident occurred in Mamund district of Bajaur agency bordering Afghanistan. The blast took place as the vaccination team was administering oral anti-polio drops to the kids.
In a rarest of the rare gesture, US President Barack Obama personally walked down to the White House portico to see off Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a meeting with him at the Oval Office.
Four workers were killed by an unknown gas when they were repairing heating pipelines in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the local work safety watchdog said Wednesday.
Chinese tourists are seeking more exotic locales for their trips as the popularity of most of their top 20 destinations soars, TripAdvisor said on Tuesday, reflecting the boom by the world's highest-spending group of travellers.
The two sisters, three and two years old, crawled into the washing machine while playing at home in Qiaoshe Township, Xinjian County of Jiangxi province last weekend.
Harry was following in the footsteps of Diana, who visited minefields in Angola in 1997 and drew global attention to the charity's efforts to clear them.
A four-member committee has been formed to probe the deadly suicide bombings near a church in Peshawar on Sunday, that killed 81 people and injured 150 others, police said on Monday.
Bangladeshi garment workers continued their protest for the third consecutive day today, with thousands of them taking to the streets in the national capital demanding hike in their wages.
NATO says a roadside bombing has killed two international service members in eastern Afghanistan.