In The Hague this week, Iranian officials offered to cooperate with the US. Iran has pursued an ambitious redevelopment effort in Afghanistan since 2001.
Some experts said the test undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary able to hurl deadly warheads halfway around the globe.
AP - The U.S. and its allies sought punishment for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to the "provocative act" that some believe was a long-range missile test.
AP - A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.
Layla Khalil escaped the bombs that rocked Iraq during three years of insurgent and sectarian warfare, only to be gunned down while trying to learn English in her adopted hometown, family and friends said Sunday. She was one of 13 victims in the massacre at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, on Friday.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy early Monday, less than six hours after another quake hit the northern part of the country, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
North Korea has followed through on its publicly-stated intention to launch a long-range rocket, defying warnings from the international community and setting off a firestorm of criticism in the process. U.S. military sources said the launch was a failure, claiming that the rocket's payload failed to enter into orbit.