Yahoo! News - World Pressure Builds to Prevent South Asia War The world's top industrial nations have stepped up the pressure on Pakistan to stop Islamic militants from raiding Indian territory and avert war between the two nuclear-armed powers.

India set to launch 'small war' | csmonitor.com US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will go to Asia next week to try to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.

Yahoo! News - Solemn Tribute Ends New York's WTC Recovery What began on Sept. 11 with the scream of crashing jetliners, the roar of falling steel and the deaths of thousands ended on Thursday in a silence broken only by the solemn tolling of bells, the wail of bagpipes and the sobs of those mourning the loved ones they lost.

Yahoo! News - FBI Gets More Freedom for Domestic Surveillance The FBI on Thursday won additional powers to conduct domestic counterterrorism surveillance at places like mosques -- changes critics say could trample on Americans' rights and civil liberties.

New Scientist - Three million would die in "limited" nuclear war over Kashmir A minimum of three million people would be killed and 1.5 million seriously injured if even a "limited" nuclear war broke out between India and Pakistan, warns a new study uncovered by New Scientist.