Known here as "Osama bin Laden's children" or "the walking dead," nearly two dozen suicide bombers entered Khost province over those paths in the past year. As new explosives technology and tactics from the war in Iraq arrive in this remote corner of South Asia, suicide bombing attacks in the past 12 months have more than quadrupled from fewer than half a dozen in the previous year. bombing raids on suspected al Qaeda hide-outs last year, has all but retreated from its effort to fight the...

Northwest researchers, hoping to find new energy solutions, are looking to the byproducts of area industries, such as forestry and agriculture, as a way to replace the petroleum used in everyday products with plant-derived sugar.

The brokerage firms and commodity exchanges are determined to spread awareness among farmers on futures trading, with this agenda the Financial Markets International (FMI) and National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) have launched such programmes in the state. - News Channel from India: News updated hourly

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Winter wheat, a crop once almost unheard of in Wisconsin, is taking root in America's Dairyland even as other states are growing less of it.