(EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.)

... Relations Committee, Biden is well versed in policy debates and carefully choreographed trips. But his record on the Islamic Republic of Iran perhaps the chief national security threat facing the next president suggests a persistent and dangerous judgment ...

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) -- Almost exactly 14 years since the day

Islam means "submission" to God, or Allah, and Muslims are those who submit to his will as revealed in the seventh century to the Prophet Muhammad, a merchant from Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia.

... Baathist doctrine exalted Arab unity above all other goals (though Saddam attacked an Arab neighbor and the Islamic Republic of Iran). Such unity, it was taught, would restore Arab civilization to its lost preeminence. Iraqi sixth-grade ...

"Real Men Moisturize." So begins an article on "Sharp Dressed Men" that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called Hi is published in Arabic and English. A State Department Web site explains that Hi is published "with the hope of building bridges of greater understanding ...

NEW YORK - Subways and buses ground to a halt Tuesday morning as transit workers walked off the job following days of acrimonious labor talks.

The following editorial appeared in Sunday's Washington Post:

Don't expect to hear this from the White House any time soon, but the global war on terrorism conceived in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, has effectively ended. As President Bush travels from one military post to the next giving pep talks to soldiers, he manfully sustains the pretense that V-T Day is just around the corner. Yet ...