Peter Baker

Akbar Al Baker said that the Indian aviation industry is very regulated and regulations stifle growth. "I think that it is incorrect for the authorities to stifle competition just to protect one or two other airlines. You should leave it to survival of the fittest," he asserted.

President Barack Obama has made clear what he will miss the most when he leaves office in 15 months. "People sometimes ask me what the biggest perk of being president is," he told visitors at the White House last week. "No. 1 is the plane."

"We are going to more effectively capture what is the boundless energy and talent of Americans who have the will but sometimes need a little help..."

Actor Adam Driver says it was surreal being cast in Star Wars: Episode VII as he grew up watching the series.

Perhaps it is nothing more than an accident of timing that as federal workers brace for a summer filled with unpaid furlough days, their leaders are traveling the nation and globe on trips that exude luxury.

President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car's license plate.The man in the car was bin Laden's most trusted courier, and over the next mon...

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced. (Watch: Obama announces Osama's death | Full Text) In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the Whi...

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced.In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Obama declared that "justice has been ...

US President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan  on Friday as he sought to smooth over a troubled relationship with President Hamid Karzai  and take stock of a nine-year-old American-led war that he hopes to begin winding down next summer.Mr. Obama arrived at Bagram Air Base after a secret overnight flight. Bad weather and hig...

Somewhere along the way, the apostle of change became its target, engulfed by the same currents that swept him to the White House two years ago. Now, President Obama must find a way to recalibrate with nothing less than his presidency on the line. The verdict delivered by voters on Tuesday effectively put an end to his transformational ambitions an...

Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, "Obama's Wars," by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn ov...

A quiet holiday in a lavish Mediterranean retreat for the first lady and her daughter has turned into a bit of a headache for a White House trying to battle bad economic news at home.Michelle Obama took her younger daughter, Sasha, to southern Spain this week for a mother-daughter getaway. But when you are married to the president, it has a way of ...

The United States sealed an agreement on Thursday to trade 10 Russian agents arrested last month for four men imprisoned in Russia for alleged contacts with Western intelligence agencies, bringing to a quick conclusion an episode that threatened to disrupt relations between the countries. The 10 long-term sleeper agents pleaded guilty to conspiracy...

Akbar Al Baker said that the Indian aviation industry is very regulated and regulations stifle growth. "I think that it is incorrect for the authorities to stifle competition just to protect one or two other airlines. You should leave it to survival of the fittest," he asserted.

President Barack Obama has made clear what he will miss the most when he leaves office in 15 months. "People sometimes ask me what the biggest perk of being president is," he told visitors at the White House last week. "No. 1 is the plane."

"We are going to more effectively capture what is the boundless energy and talent of Americans who have the will but sometimes need a little help..."

Actor Adam Driver says it was surreal being cast in Star Wars: Episode VII as he grew up watching the series.

Perhaps it is nothing more than an accident of timing that as federal workers brace for a summer filled with unpaid furlough days, their leaders are traveling the nation and globe on trips that exude luxury.

President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

For years, the agonizing search for Osama bin Laden kept coming up empty. Then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car's license plate.The man in the car was bin Laden's most trusted courier, and over the next mon...

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced. (Watch: Obama announces Osama's death | Full Text) In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the Whi...

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced.In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Obama declared that "justice has been ...

US President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan  on Friday as he sought to smooth over a troubled relationship with President Hamid Karzai  and take stock of a nine-year-old American-led war that he hopes to begin winding down next summer.Mr. Obama arrived at Bagram Air Base after a secret overnight flight. Bad weather and hig...

Somewhere along the way, the apostle of change became its target, engulfed by the same currents that swept him to the White House two years ago. Now, President Obama must find a way to recalibrate with nothing less than his presidency on the line. The verdict delivered by voters on Tuesday effectively put an end to his transformational ambitions an...

Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, "Obama's Wars," by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn ov...

A quiet holiday in a lavish Mediterranean retreat for the first lady and her daughter has turned into a bit of a headache for a White House trying to battle bad economic news at home.Michelle Obama took her younger daughter, Sasha, to southern Spain this week for a mother-daughter getaway. But when you are married to the president, it has a way of ...

The United States sealed an agreement on Thursday to trade 10 Russian agents arrested last month for four men imprisoned in Russia for alleged contacts with Western intelligence agencies, bringing to a quick conclusion an episode that threatened to disrupt relations between the countries. The 10 long-term sleeper agents pleaded guilty to conspiracy...