Turkey's prime minister said his country is
ready to mediate between Iran and the incoming U.S. administration of
Barack Obama. In an interview in Wednesday's New York Times, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara could be "very useful" in nurturing ties
between Tehran and Washington, strained over Iran's disputed nuclear
program.
National Bestselling author, Daniel Whyte III, along with family and friends, in his new book, Money Under the Car Seat: And Other Things to Thank God For, sheds new light on the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and shows us how to look at Thanksgiving through "fresh eyes." This book is intentionally not about the Pilgrims, or the Indians, or the first Thanksgiving. It is not just about the family getting together, eating, or traveling. Whyte believes that Thanksgiving is much bigger than that.
North Korea is in the final stage of restoring its nuclear capabilities, and its armed forces are capable of carrying out 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attack, news reports that surfaced yesterday say.
President Shimon Peres, on the first day of a state visit to Britain on Tuesday, devoted part of his speech on the issues of peace and globalization at Oxford University to United States President-elect Barack Obama. Peres' speech was then disrupted by anti-Israel protesters. 
Working in secret, Israel and Germany have jointly developed a nuclear missile detection system, according to the Defense News Web site. Code-named Project Bluebird, the system is based on the prototype of an aerial infrared sensor designed to identify a nuclear-tipped missile speeding toward a target amid a cluster of decoy missiles.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Iran is still trying to build nuclear bombs and the world must make a concerted effort to stop the project.
Prime minister tours Gaza Division headquarters with defense minister in tow, both pledge that while Israel is keen on maintaining current ceasefire, the army is prepared to act against any perceived threat. 
