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Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who played a role in the founding of the Islamic Republic, has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition.

Senate Democrats moved to the brink of a crucial preliminary victory on health care legislation as Senator Mary L. Landrieu said she would vote to bring the bill to the floor.

The profile that has emerged of David Headley, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting revenge against a Danish newspaper, suggests a man pulled between two cultures.

A senior Sri Lankan official said that all ethnic-minority Tamil detainees would be freed from government camps on Dec. 1.

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single day domestic box office record previously held by “The Dark Knight.”

The authorities arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of providing logistical support and financing.

Prosecutors asked an Italian court to hand down life sentences to an American student and her former boyfriend for their alleged roles in a fatal stabbing.

Even popular bills and generally acceptable nominees have had to traverse a procedural thicket.

Dominic Carter was cleared of a more serious charge of third-degree assault in the incident, the Rockland County district attorney said.