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Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war against the Taliban cannot be won, the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, said as Washington sought more troops for the...
W is a remarkable movie - an historic movie - in two ways. First, Oliver Stone began making it (based on a partially completed script) only nine months ago. Alas, in all other respects, Mr Stone’s ‘biopic’ of George W. Bush’s...
Henry Waxman, 2008. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP It is an axiom of public life that if extreme crises bring out the worst in human nature, they also bring to the surface what is best. So it is with the world financial meltdown,...
Central bank is increasingly aggressive in attempting to stabilize economy Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's words have always loomed large over the traders on the New York Stock Exchange. Radical steps by the Fed under chairman Ben...
Most adults should aim for 2½ hours of exercise a week, and children and teens need at least an hour a day of brisk activity, the U.S. government recommends in new guidelines issued Tuesday. The guidelines from the U.S. Health...
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents...
Squaring off in the second of three debates, Barack Obama and John McCain drew sharp differences over the origin of domestic and international problems -- and how to tackle them. Obama tied McCain to President Bush on Iraq and...
