MINNEAPOLIS – Airport greetings are usually pretty staid, scripted affairs, but when Senator John McCain landed here Wednesday to claim the Republican presidential nomination the scene on the tarmac was ...

NATO commandos raid Pakistan
By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and JANE PERLEZ  


Diana’s driver connected to French intelligence, inquest told


Two American human rights activists arrested in Pakistan


Slovakian police arrest 3 trying to sell radioactive material


New case of potential abuse involving Afghan prisoner uncovered: Bernier
By Murray Brewster  


10 more years for Afghan security, says Hillier
There is little chance that Afghanistan will be able to handle its own security needs any time within the next decade, Canada's top soldier said Thursday.

China plans to ban tobacco promotions