y.g 02:23 am | Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent. Add hundreds of U.S. Marines, squads of Afghan...

partner 03:43 pm |  Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war will seek meetings with former members of the Bush administration after taking evidence from Tony Blair and other key British officials, the panel’s chairman said Monday. John Chilcot,...

y.g 01:27 pm | Pyongyang accused Seoul on Monday of plotting to topple its regime as relations again soured, while a top Chinese official met North Korea’s leader to bring the country back to nuclear disarmament talks. In...

y.g 12:44 pm |  A spokeswoman for New York Gov. David Paterson is calling rumors about his personal behavior “absolutely false” and says he will not resign. Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein (SHOHR’-en-steen) made the statement Monday. Rumors around the...

y.g 12:28 pm |  Two British soldiers died in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, officials announced Monday, raising Britain’s death toll in the conflict to 255 — the number of Britons lost in the Falklands war of...