Balanced News Blog

A tornado tore across western Kentucky and southwestern Indiana early Sunday, killing at least 20 people.

Jewish Defense League figure Earl Krugel, convicted in a plot to bomb a California mosque and the office of a U.S. congressman was killed at a federal prison in Arizona, an FBI spokesman said Saturday.

Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a derelict building in Evry south of Paris, with more than 100 bottles ready to turned into bombs, another 50 already prepared, as well as stocks of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces, senior Justice Ministry official Jean-Marie Huet told The Associated Press. Police arrested six youths, all under 18, he added.

A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.

Tony Blair was preparing a humiliating climbdown over anti-terror laws last night in what will be seen as a further blow to his dwindling personal authority.

Disputing a claim by U-S commanders, there is now a report of heavier-than-expected enemy resistance in the latest U-S-led offensive in Iraq.

A severe aftershock has rattled northern Pakistan, unleashing new landslides and panicking survivors of last month’s monster quake.

One of the largest and most powerful commercial satellites in the world is set to blast off on Monday. The UK-built Inmarsat-4 F2 is the second of three satellites designed to improve global communications systems.