General Works to Salvage Legacy of Iraq War
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and THOM SHANKER
Gen. Ray Odierno has served the administration that started the Iraq war and now the one whose president campaigned to end it.
Top Vatican officials, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, did not defrock an American priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even after warnings from several bishops, church files show.
Gen. Ray Odierno has served the administration that started the Iraq war and now the one whose president campaigned to end it.
While an International Monetary Fund bailout would be one possible solution to the Greek debt problem, European pride and politics stand in the way.
Russia and the U.S. have broken through a logjam and expect to sign a new treaty next month that would slash nuclear arsenals, officials from both nations said Wednesday.
Russia said its envoys and Chinese envoys pressured Iran to accept a plan on uranium enrichment but Iran refused.
A new Taliban deputy, known as a politically unskilled fighter, is a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who is unlikely to back negotiations.
Negotiators huddled for a second day after failing to end an impasse over construction in East Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan is working to end more than a century of bureaucratic control of the country’s central ministries.
The discovery stemmed from work on a child’s bone buried between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago in Siberia.
The European Commission said such a system would require the United States to contribute information on American citizens' transactions.
The chancellor of the Exchequer promised to halve the deficit in four years but defended the spending that has pushed Britain’s deficit to a historic highs.
Government outlays eat up half the nation’s economic output, but voters are having second thoughts about the Tories’ call to shrink the budget.
Private security guards aboard a merchant ship off the coast of East Africa fired on and killed a Somali pirate after a group attacked their vessel, the E.U. said.
The four employees of the British-Australian mining giant face five to 15 years in prison in a ruling that is being closely watched by foreign companies operating in China.
Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, opened talks with Russia to sell control over the operation of natural gas pipelines in Ukraine to a consortium that included the Russian company Gazprom.
Should multinationals like Google play a greater role in challenging Beijing's policies?
The product is banned in about half of U.S. states, so its purchase and consumption therefore involves a minor degree of civil disobedience.
A group biography of the rulers of Britain, Russia and Germany, whose blood ties and fondness for one another were not enough to prevent World War I.
The Rev. Yuriy Volovetskiy, a Catholic priest in western Ukraine, has six children ranging in age from 9 to 21.
A fishing village in Veldur, India, awaits the revival of a old power plant with mixed emotions.
Home to at least 44,000 displaced people, the Petionville Country Club in Haiti offers a portrait of entrenched transience.
The U-2 spy plane, the aircraft that was often at the heart of cold war suspense, has become a sought-after intelligence gatherer in a very different war in Afghanistan.