Balanced News Blog

Saddam Hussein has added three more Arab attorneys to his defense team. The former Iraqi dictator now has seven men defending him on charges of killing scores of Shiite Muslims after a 1982 attempt on his life.

Young Joseph Rains almost quit his job as a paperboy in Grand Island, N.Y., but his decision to stick with it may have saved an elderly woman’s life.

At least two Israeli missiles hit areas in the Gaza Strip a day after Israel promised to enforce a new buffer zone against militant rockets.

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, confirmed Monday that it is in talks with Sony Corp. to supply NAND flash memory chips.

Energy experts predicted that the implementation of the Law on Renewable Resources on January 1, 2006 will open up a huge market in China for renewable solar energy.

The serial rape suspect accused of terrorizing two South Florida neighborhoods with attacks on victims ranging from elderly women to an 11-year-old girl was back in custody Tuesday, a week since his brazen jail escape, after a tipster recognized his face and called police.

A 19-year-old woman was killed and six other people injured when gunmen opened fire in Toronto‘s busy post-Christmas shopping district.

Six men have been convicted and sentenced to death on charges they belonged to a terrorist group plotting to attack U-S troops in Kuwait.

South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official said on Monday.

In a country where about 75 …