Balanced News Blog

The 9/11 Commission released its final report on Monday, outlining an array of shortcomings in the government’s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks and calling overall progress disappointing.

A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money laundering, dashing the congressman’s hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader.

The Ford Five Hundred and Mercury Montego, when equipped with optional side airbags, earned a Gold “Top Safety Pick” award for large cars from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Audi A6 was given the Silver award for large cars.

What started out as two risque pictures has turned into a very serious matter for one Penn student.

The Sober worm has been blamed for jamming servers at Hotmail and MSN, causing a significant disruption in e-mail traffic between the Microsoft services and Comcast‘s networks.

Fourteen people, including ten children, were killed when the snow-covered roof of a Russian swimming pool collapsed onto parents and children in a deluge of concrete and metal.

Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives, which researchers said on Wednesday was no coincidence.

There are no immediate reports of casualties nor extensive damage after a powerful earthquake shook East Africa in the Lake Tanganyika region on Monday.

Amazon UK is facing criticism from Xbox 360 customers who have not got the console they ordered months ago.

At least five people have been injured in clashes between Syria’s security forces and a “terrorist group“, the official Sana news agency says.