Pakistani officials have quietly begun consulting with other nations about the conduct of their investigation into opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's killing, despite a public insistence that they need no foreign help, U.S. officials say. ...more

December 30, 2007

The Pakistani government on Saturday rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, despite controversy over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil. ...more

December 30, 2007

A millionaire opposition leader who cast himself as a champion of the poor appeared poised to unseat the incumbent Kenyan president, according to preliminary official results of the election and media tallies Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

As slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest in her ancestral village Friday, the government of President Pervez Musharraf laid the blame for her assassination on a Taliban commander and said other politicians also were under threat. ...more

December 29, 2007

President Bush held an emergency meeting of his top foreign policy aides Friday to discuss the deepening crisis in Pakistan, as administration officials and others explored whether Thursday's assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto marks the beginning of a new Islamic extremist offensive that could spread beyond Pakistan and undermine the U.S. war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. ...more

December 29, 2007

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic opposition leader who had promised to restore democracy in Pakistan, set off a nationwide wave of grief and fury and raised the specter of violent unrest that could threaten the government of U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf. ...more

December 28, 2007

The suicide attack that killed Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday cut short an epic life, one bathed in blood and awash with controversy. ...more

December 28, 2007

Rana Younas got the call early Thursday from a nervous friend - a Pakistani-American like him - from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. ...more

December 28, 2007

TAMPA Rana Younas got the call early today from a nervous friend – a Pakistani-American like him – from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was dead, assassinated by a suicide bomber just 12 days before the national elections. ...more

December 27, 2007

THEATER Today-Sunday "Radio City Christmas Spectacular"; Santa Claus and The Rockettes perform to holiday favorites; 1 and 8 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m., 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday; $39 to $74; Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, Tampa; (813) 229-7827 ...more

December 26, 2007