Balanced News Blog

A basketball-sized piece of marble moulding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.

From what we can make of a Turkish news report, warplanes from that country were scrambled to force down a German airliner that passed over on its way from Egypt to Munich — but they apparently failed to intercept it.

The US Air Force has unveiled its first hand-held laser weapon that gives security forces a non-lethal option for controlling crowds and protecting areas like checkpoints, according to service officials.

President Bush today will call for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

A military vehicle carrying U.S. politicians overturned on the way to the Baghdad airport Saturday, injuring two congressmen, a fellow congressman traveling with them said.

Less than 24 hours before Saddam Hussein‘s scheduled return to court on charges of crimes against humanity, police in northern Iraq said Sunday that they had arrested eight Sunni Arab men carrying orders from a fugitive associate of the deposed leader ordering the assassination of the court’s best-known judge.