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Elusive biblical Jerusalem wall finally found, Israeli archaeologist says The Associated PressPublished: November 29, 2007 JERUSALEM: A biblical wall that has eluded archaeologists for years has finally been found, according to an Israeli scholar. A team of archaeologists in Jerusalem has uncovered what they believe to be part of a wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah. The discovery, made in Jerusalem's ancient City of David, came as a result of a rescue attempt on a tower which was in danger of collapse, said Eilat Mazar, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday said the state budget stalemate is delaying work on pressing policy issues such as health care reform but is at a loss about how to end it. The state Senate failed a second time late Wednesday to pass the $145 billion spending plan approved last month by the Assembly, falling one vote short of the two-thirds majority required to pass it. Schwarzenegger and Democratic leaders say they are mystified about what it will take to persuade at least one more Republican to support it. Speaking Thursday to reporters, the governor described a frustrating...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 1, 2006) – Comparing the Global War on Terror to the Cold War, President George W. Bush told 861 U.S. Military Academy graduates May 27 that they will face a more elusive enemy – global terrorists. Comparing the years after World War II to the years following 9/11, he said the dedication of President Harry S. Truman helped the U.S. build a stronghold against its challenges. “By the actions he took, the institutions he built, the alliances he forged and the doctrines he set down, President Truman laid the foundation of America’s victory in the...

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - "Bush, do you know where I am?" With these words, Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's No. 2 after Osama bin Laden, taunted U.S. President George W. Bush last month after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan failed to kill him. CIA Director Porter Goss said last year he had an excellent idea of where bin Laden was, but more than four years after the September 11 attacks and despite military operations and high-level arrests, bin Laden and Zawahri are still eluding capture. U.S. officials say only that they are thought to be somewhere in the rugged tribal areas that...

Queen’s remains are still elusive Devika Sequeira in Panaji The Archaeological Survey of India’s 20-year search for the relics of Queen Ketevan in Old Goa has ended in disappointment. But the excavations offer an intriguing and significant insight into 16th century Goa. Setting to rest a debate that has engaged historians and archaeologists for over 20 years, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) announced earlier this week that though it had managed to locate the “burial site” of Queen Ketevan of Georgia amidst the ruins of the St Augustine complex in Old Goa, the queen's remains were not at the...

Elusive building, like the man Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004 By John Brummett I agree with Hillary Clinton when she says her husband's new presidential library in Little Rock reflects him perfectly. But I see it and him differently from the way she sees them. She says the structure represents Bill in that it is open, expansive and full of light. She's correct as far as that goes. But the library mirrors him in a more substantive way: What you make of it depends on your angle. From the Interstate 30 bridge over the Arkansas River the structure looks for all...

<p>San Francisco's looming budget deficit of $352 million projected for next fiscal year has an unlikely coalition of big business representatives, labor leaders and social service providers talking taxes.</p> <p>In its final meeting Friday before making recommendations to the Board of Supervisors, an advisory group led by Supervisor Fiona Ma didn't come to any conclusions about the hard choices San Francisco must make: whether to tax the rich so the city can keep services for the poor, tax everyone equally or forget the new taxes and force Mayor Gavin Newsom to cut spending.</p>

Elusive hunt for al-Qaeda By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent, Bagram airbase, Afghanistan US troops have been beefing up their presence in the remote region In the remote mountains of Afghanistan an unusual mission is underway. Large numbers of US troops have dropped in by helicopter to a place that has never seen Americans before. US intelligence believes that the wild region of Nuristan and Kunar is harbouring militants linked to al-Qaeda and other groups. Operation Mountain Resolve is aimed at destroying them and their bases. The US military has found it hard to locate al-Qaeda. Now, it says, its...

Agreement proves elusive as talks begin on North Korea nuclear crisis By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 28 August 2003 The United States and North Korea made their first face-to-face contact in four months yesterday when crucial six-way talks on the crisis surrounding Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme opened in Beijing. But warm handshakes and broad smiles for the cameras proved short-lived. There was little sign that the start of the three-day talks - which have brought together the US, Russia, the two Koreas, Japan and China - had led the two main adversaries to give ground and resolve a crisis that...