In The Hague this week, Iranian officials offered to cooperate with the US. Iran has pursued an ambitious redevelopment effort in Afghanistan since 2001.
Much of the world viewed the launching on Sunday as an effort by the North to prove that it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead on a longer-range missile.
European leaders offered few extra troops for President Obama’s intensified effort in Afghanistan, underlining deep divisions within the alliance over the war.
AP - North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.
AP - Washington state investigators say five children between 7 and 16 years old have been found dead in a Graham area home and they may have been killed by their father.
AP - European leaders enthusiastically praised President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy at a NATO summit Saturday but held their ground on a central disagreement and offered only military trainers and extra security forces for upcoming elections.
The NCAA men's basketball Final Four couldn't come at a better time for the city of Detroit. The capital of the U.S. auto industry has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 12 percent. But city leaders expect 100,000 fans to visit this weekend and spend $30 million to $50 million.
Amid mounting pressure from the West, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government will review a recently approved version of a law that critics say legalizes marital rape and the U.S. president has called "abhorrent."