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Dozens killed as terrorist strike in Peshawar coincides with visit to Islamabad by US secretary of stateThe deadliest Taliban bombing in two years ripped through a women's market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today, killing almost 90 people.The attack happened as the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, began a three-day visit to Pakistan.The blast ripped through cosmetics stalls and clothes shops in Peshawar's old city, filling the narrow streets with burning debris and trapping dozens of victims under wreckage and charred roof beams. A two-storey building collapsed as firefighters doused it with water.Television footage showed wounded people sitting amid debris as others attempted to rescue survivors and get them to hospital.A spokesman for the Lady Reading hospital said it had received the bodies of 87 victims, many of them women and children. Provincial officials said over 200 people were injured.The city commissioner, Azam Khan, said the explosion was caused by a car bomb.

Launched Oct. 28 as a free Google Maps feature for smartphones that will run the Google Android 2.0 build, Google Maps Navigation is a GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance. The program uses the phone's Internet connection to fetch users the latest maps and business data. Features include the ability to search without knowing an address, search by voice and search any business along a route. Google envisions Maps Navigation as a differentiator to set Android 2.0-based smartphones apart from Apple's iPhone. There are also traffic, satellite and street views. The details are in this eWEEK slide show. - ...

Google today provided added details of the turn-by-turn mapping service found on the Motorola Droid. Google Maps Navigation adds many of the features that would normally exist in a dedicated GPS unit, such as a bird's-eye view and spoken directions, but takes advantage of Google's existing Maps features. Traffic is free in those areas where Google provides service, and Street View can show directions overlaid on top of in-location photos....

former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , who was assassinated just weeks later. The bomb went off in the busy Peepal Mandi market street in a city that for years served as the headquarters of the

A two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Broughton and Douglas streets yesterday afternoon sent a car careening through the Sussex Place courtyard, seriously injuring an older woman and snarling...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips reported a 71 percent decline in third-quarter profit on Wednesday as weak demand for fuel hurt its refining business and oil prices fell from a year earlier, but the results exceeded Wall Street estimates.

Seeking to place J Street firmly in the Israeli and American mainstream, executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami compared his organization's positions to that of Israel's centrist political party.

Stocks slipped Wednesday morning, with the Nasdaq sliding for the fourth straight session, as investors worried about the strength of the recovery ahead of Thursday's key GDP report.

The US president's national security adviser James Jones said early Wednesday, Oct. 28: The united states will be ready to respond if Iran fails to take tangible steps soon to meet its commitments over its nuclear program. 'Nothing is off the table,' he warned. Jones delivered the keynote address as the founding conference of the new J Street Jewish lobby.

Stock futures pushed back near their low points of the morning as a reading of orders for long-lasting goods during September rose strongly, but didn't reach Wall Street expectations.