Anastasia Myskina became the first Russian woman to win the Kremlin Cup since its inception in 1989.

Israeli warplanes attacked an Islamic Jihad training base deep in Syria in retaliation for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant that killed 19 people.

The U.S. administration's optimistic statements earlier this year that Iraq's oil wealth, not American taxpayers, would cover most of the cost of rebuilding Iraq were at odds with a bleaker assessment of a government task force secretly established last fall to study Iraq's oil industry, according to public records and government officials.

Putin is the man in the mask. He is a mirror, in which everyone sees a reflection of themselves.

Corruption can often be seen, or surmised, but exactly who's taking how much is murkier.

""What is this?!"" Grandpa exclaimed, ""as a result of the treatment, I have shrunk by 30 centimeters.""