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The seizure of the Afghan Taliban’s top military leader in Pakistan represents a turning point in the U.S.-led war against the militants, U.S. officials and analysts said.

In September 1962, at a rally at Rice University in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy told the American people: “We choose to go to the moon.”

Toyota’s consumer woes deepened on Wednesday, and for the first time on native soil.

Former British PM Tony Blair’s one-time media adviser says a 2002 intelligence document that claimed Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was not “sexed up” to exaggerate the case for war.

Eight people drowned and one was missing after a small boat carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan hits rocks in the eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the Greek coast guard said.

Japan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month was 5.1 percent, down from 5.3 percent in September, according to government figures released Friday.

Two key Taliban commanders were killed in a shootout with security forces in the most recent Pakistani offensive against the Islamic militants, according to the Pakistani military.

China executes a British man convicted of drug smuggling, who was reportedly mentally unstable, drawing strong condemnation from the British government.

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will remain in the hospital at least “another 36 hours,” his doctor said Monday, following an attack that left the 73-year-old with broken teeth and a fractured nose.

The European Union has launched a digital library that offers documents dating to nearly 60 years ago, in 23 languages.

New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo eased to victory in the 65th annual Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race on Monday.

More resources and personnel are needed to train Afghan security forces so they can become “masters in their own house,” NATO’s secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

A passenger fled from security officers after his laptop computer tested positive for explosives at an airport in Munich, the country’s federal police told CNN on Wednesday.

The United States and its allies are facing “an absolute defeat” against the Taliban in Afghanistan even if additional troops are sent, according to a message purportedly from the Taliban’s elusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.