The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates debated in California Thursday night. Watch what they had to say and what others had to say about them.

Despite it being a showdown between the remaining two candidates, Thursday’s Democratic debate was in marked contrast from last week’s contentious face off.

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Clooney toured U.N. headquarters for a ceremony and a new pin on his lapel marking his designation for the special job by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander, a U.S. official said Thursday.

A series of armed attacks in the eastern Chad town of Guereda has forced the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to pull most of its staff out of two nearby refugee camps that house refugees from Darfur.

The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday passed an economic stimulus package that would inject close to $200 billion into the economy over two years in an attempt to stave off recession.

A senior al Qaeda terrorist active in operational planning and training has been killed in Pakistan, a knowledgeable Western official and an unnamed military source said today. Abu Laith al-Libi is thought to have been involved in the February 2007 bombing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan while Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting.

Tonight’s debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama touched on topics including Iraq, immigration, taxes, health care and job experience. In contrast to last week’s contentious faceoff, the candidates’ debate tonight was largely cordial.

Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, DeveloperGood news for indie game designers on OS X — GarageGames has released version 1.7 of their Torque Game Builder, which allows programmers to create games for almost any platform from within an OS X interface. This latest release improves the editors for link points and collision polygons, […]