KABUL, Afghanistan - American soldiers shot and killed 14 security guards after an encounter in eastern Afghanistan, and the Afghan president said yesterday he feared the deaths would only discredit his own government in the eyes of its people.

THIS private detective, who threatened an old lady while pretending to be a police officer, has lost his career - and is set to lose more this afternoon.

President Yoweri Museveni for the first time spoke out on the controversy surrounding the Parliamentary investigation into the National Social Security Fund's purchase of more than 400 acres of land belonging to Security Minister Amama Mbabazi and city b

Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide, a controversial private military company, misrepresented itself when it sought city permits to set up an indoor training facility in Otay Mesa, 10News reported.

The volume of junk e-mail may have dropped drastically after a Web-hosting firm, identified by many in the computer security community as a major host of spam activity, was taken offline.