The US House of Representatives narrowly approved a historic climate bill that for the first time would force US companies to limit greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming.
The last rites of pop legend Michael Jackson, who died following cardiac arrest last week, would be conducted in Los Angeles next Tuesday, according to thesun.co.uk.
A Taliban commander told CBS News Thursday that militants had captured one U. S. soldier and three Afghan nationals in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border.
Pakistan today claimed the "very fragile" situation in the state cannot be tackled through administrative and political measures as suggested by Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Pakistan's military said it had redeployed troops along the Afghan border to prevent Taliban fighters from fleeing a massive US offensive launched in southern Afghanistan.
China is planning for an installed nuclear power capacity of 86 gigawatts (gW) by 2020,up nearly 10-fold from the 9 gW capacity it had by the end of last year.
The first units of an estimated 4,000 US Marines began what was described as a major offensive early Thursday against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Helmand province