The nation’s top military officer told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that the U.S. military isn’t planning on sending additional troops to Iraq to deal with the recent surge in violence
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China’s disabled quake children piece together their lives
For 20 hours Gao Ying lay in the rubble of her school in China’s Sichuan province last spring.
ICC referee Broad hailed as attack hero
Former England batsman Chris Broad has emerged as a hero after the armed ambush in Pakistan that killed eight people and wounded eight Sri Lankan Test cricketers.
Chinese mothers lose children, livelihoods in fatal wreck
The three mothers hail from the same province in China, but they’d never met until a reckless driver in central Ohio killed their only children.
Abu Ghraib now a humane prison, Iraq officials say
The notorious Iraq prison once called Abu Ghraib has reopened under Iraqi government control. And the Ministry of Justice has launched a public-relations campaign to show it has changed since the days when prisoners were tortured there — first under Saddam Hussein, and later by American troops.
Chandra Levy’s mom says police have enough evidence to convict
Washington police told the mother of slain congressional intern Chandra Levy that an arrest is imminent in her daughter’s 2001 death, Susan Levy told CNN on Saturday. “I got a call from the Washington police department, just to give me a heads up that there’s a warrant out for the arrest,” Levy said. Police Chief Cathy Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department did not reveal the suspect’s name when she contacted the parents on Friday, Levy said.
Army official: Suicides in January ‘terrifying’
One week after the U.S.