WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to Asia for a final time as Pentagon chief on Tuesday, looking to reassure allies the United States is committed to regional security despite tightening defense budgets and his own imminent departure.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates joined a top US official Tuesday in urging rich nations to invest in the world's poor farmers to help end hunger -- a move he said would also help improve food security.
Delivering a speech to New Hampshire Republicans on Saturday, Tea Party caucus leader and potential GOP 2012 contender Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) compared the tax burden future generations may face to the Holocaust.
The Tea Party Nation announced on its website Tuesday that its online forums had been attacked by the decentralized collective of hacktivists known as "Anonymous."
MOSCOW – High fees, spying, and outright blockage -- Central Asia's regimes are not short of ways to control Internet blogs and social networks which have mobilised the recent protests in the Middle East.
SANAA – Tens of thousands of protesters amassed Thursday at Sanaa University for a "day of rage" calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, while a similar number of government loyalists flooded a central square.
