In the aftermath of the Bali bombing, top Indonesian officials have begun to concede that their country, the world's most-populous Muslim nation, faces a terrorist threat.
Even as the Colombian authorities claim victories in bombing top rebel commanders and eradicating vast tracts of coca — the plant used to make cocaine, long the financial lifeblood of the insurgents — resilient factions are exploring new sources of money.
In other raids, Taliban forces have bombed the top of the mountain in an effort to get the cave to collapse.
But after the bus bombing on Wednesday, top administration officials -- even while urging restraint from the Israelis -- laid the blame for obstructing the peace process squarely on Hamas.
WASHINGTON -- After a briefing on the Times Square bombing attempt, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee called Tuesday for improvements in the no-fly list and the addition of the Pakistani Taliban to the government's official list of terrorist organizations.
The day the bombing began, one top Air Force general in Washington fretted privately about a "new Vietnam". On June 2, the day before the peace deal was announced, another very senior Pentagon official expressed doubt that the air war could ever be won and predicted that the bombing could go on for years.
7.51pm BST Top bombing Good evening everybody and welcome to what might well turn out to be the most shambolic, halfwitted, poorly-informed coverage of preposterously good looking and chiselled men in very tight strides jumping into water in the history of aquatic sport.
Hours before Thursday's bombing, the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Nicholson, visited Nangarhar with the Afghan president's national security adviser, minister of defence and intelligence chief.
The relatives of some of the 189 Americans killed in the attack fear the prosecution is misguided because it failed to implicate others who may have ordered the bombing, including top Libyan officials.
The bombing came after a top Al Qaeda leader in Yemen, and six people traveling with him, were killed in what Yemeni officials said was an airstrike by an American drone.
Special mention to the BBC's sound chief, Monica Coyne, and her top photo bombing of the BBC's presenting team of Huw Edwards et al. The BBC director general, Tony Hall, said in an email to staff: "I have been up all night and have witnessed first-hand our live coverage of the vote and had the chance to talk to and listen to staff.
