In Wardak Province, the counterinsurgency model has been difficult to implement, though US forces have already seen some success in the first phase of the effort.
As G.M. emerged from bankruptcy on Friday, the chief executive began a new era for the carmaker with a promise to emphasize the quality of its vehicles.
AP - General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy.
AP - President Barack Obama sat down with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday for frank but constructive talks between two men who agree on helping the poor but disagree on abortion and stem cell research.
AP - Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at the conclusion of a global summit that a disastrous economic collapse apparently has been averted.
Eight children were found in the Florida home of their slain parents, who apparently were the victims of a home invasion, police confirmed to CNN today. The couple, Byrd and Melanie Billings, had 12 adopted children, some with special needs, the Pensacola News Journal has reported.
Singer Michael Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills a night, asking employees to get the prescription medicine under their names and also traveling to doctors' offices in other states to obtain them, said a confidential document from 2004 obtained by CNN.