A chartered jet with American, Russian and Canadian military officers aboard played the role of a hijacked plane in an unprecedented drill Monday as pursuing fighter planes flew close enough to see pilots' helmets silhouetted against the blue sky.Flying east across the Pacific starting Sunday from Anchorage, Alaska, the Gulfstream jet _ code-named Fencing 1220 _ was shadowed first by U.S. F-22s and later by Russian Su-27 and MiG-31 fighters in the first joint exercise of its kind among the former Cold War adversaries.
Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages before weakening to a tropical storm over northern...
The UN Security Council voted Wednesday on a fourth round of sanctions targeting Tehran. After months of intense negotiations, the UN strengthened its regime of military ...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Friday proposed the deepest cuts to California's health and welfare programs since the state tumbled into recession nearly th...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington for a four-day visit to his government's leading backer, and the supplier of national security.
