Senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers are upset that they have not been given a real chance to defeat Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. They see flurry of ceasefire activity at the UN as the beginning of the end of Israel's war against the Lebanese terror group....

Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was due to visit flood-affected areas in southern and western India on Friday, and tens of thousands were evacuated as another river threatened to burst its banks, officials said.

The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital were rocked by at least 11 explosions Friday morning as Israeli air strikes pounded the city, heralding a 31st day of fighting between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.

AP - In bombed-out southern villages and refugee-filled schools across the country, Hezbollah supporters go door to door, checking if people have enough food and medicine.

UK soldiers will lead an offensive against the Taleban in southern Afghanistan, the head of Nato forces says.

AP - Gunmen fatally shot two men and a 12-year-old boy who were traveling to Oaxaca to join ongoing protests that have driven tourists from this quaint southern city, police and protesters said Thursday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Thursday captured the southern Lebanon town of Marjayoun with little or no resistance from Hezbollah fighters in the area. A Christian community, Marjayoun lies just five miles north of the Israeli town of Metulla....

AP - City and utility officials throughout Southern California are eyeing a new system that relies on ice to store energy for air conditioners as a possible way to cut peak commercial consumption and reduce the threat of crippling blackouts.

Under the looming threat of an expanded Israeli ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, French and US diplomats at the UN Thursday quickly formulated a revised Security Council resolution on ending the fighting. Israel Wednesday halted the advance of its main invasion force just...

AP - City and utility officials throughout Southern California are eyeing a new system that relies on ice to store energy for air conditioners as a possible way to cut peak commercial consumption and reduce the threat of crippling blackouts.

As cease-fire negotiations appeared to stall, Israel lobbed artillery rounds into southern Lebanon early Thursday while troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved across the border.

AFP - The United States is ready to help Nigeria tackle its criminal activities, including the abduction of oil workers, the US ambassador said, as a spate of kidnappings continued.

AFP - Pakistani authorities said they had made several arrests which helped British police uncover a plot to blow up multiple airliners flying to the United States.

AP - Israeli troops detained about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police in Marjayoun after capturing the town on Thursday, Lebanon's interior minister said. The Israeli military said nobody was taken prisoner.

AFP - Gunmen abducted two expatriate oil workers after an ambush in the Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week in the restive Niger Delta region, an industry source told AFP.

As cease-fire negotiations appeared to stall, Israel lobbed artillery rounds into southern Lebanon early Thursday while troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved across the border.

The Southern California Trojans lost three of the top players in recent college football history this off-season to the NFL draft in: Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and LenDale White. The University got a break on Thursday when they got a receiver back from NCAA suspension. Dwayne Jarrett was...

Israeli aircraft on Thursday dropped leaflets on Beirut, warning residents in three of the Lebanese capital's southern neighborhoods to evacuate in order to avoid being harmed in strikes on Hezbollah targets there. The leaflets, one of which was translated by the AP, warned of a "painful and...

AP - The top U.N. humanitarian official criticized Israel and Hezbollah on Thursday for hindering aid agencies' access to trapped civilians in southern Lebanon, saying it was a "disgrace" they had failed to allow convoys to get through.

AP - Gunmen in military fatigues seized two foreign oil workers in southern Nigeria early Thursday, the latest violence targeting the petroleum industry in Africa's largest producer, authorities said.