Senate Takes Up Oil Drilling After House Passes Bill

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has sufficient controls over its explosives but serious weaknesses in its controls over weapons, laptop computers and ammunition, according to an audit by the Inspector General's office.Audit: ATF Has 'Serious' Weaknesses' in Controls

AFGHAN police may have been killed in the crossfire between Australian special forces soldiers and insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the Department of Defence says.Police may have died in Aussie crossfire

THE US military has arrested an American soldier serving in Iraq over the killing this week of two comrades.Soldier arrested after comrades killed