If Facebook's initial value pushes $100 billion, it would be far bigger than many established American companies, including Amazon, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods, Goldman Sachs, and Ford Motor.
KABUL — A NATO report based on interrogations portrays an insurgency convinced it is winning even as the United States and its allies enter what they hope will be the Afghan war’s final phase.
CAIRO — At least 73 people died in a brawl, refocusing attention on the failure of the government to re-establish order and threatening to provoke a new crisis during a political transition.
Since his elevation to leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un has been presenting himself as a near replica of his grandfather Kim Il-sung, captured in a Pyongyang statue.
BEIJING — Less than two months after staging a bold protest against official corruption, thousands of people in the village of Wukan cast ostensibly independent votes on Wednesday.
Having just finished a visit, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspectors will go back in three weeks.
MOSCOW — Vladimir V. Putin said that a second round of voting would lead to political turbulence.
The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease’s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said.
BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta cast the decision as an orderly step in the withdrawal, but it was the first time the United States had put a date on stepping back from its central role.
HATAY, Turkey — Ammar Cheikh Omar, who returned to his parents’ homeland from Germany, said he was forced to shoot at protesters and witness torture.
Video of Battle | In Bosnia, Russian Backed ActionUNITED NATIONS — Security Council ambassadors on Wednesday began trying to negotiate a compromise resolution on Syria, with the bartering focused in good part on the conditions under which President Bashar al-Assad could be asked to cede power.
MEXICO CITY — The general and his men are accused of carrying out killings, torture and drugs and arms trafficking in Chihuahua State.
Cetusa, a sponsor of a State Department work/travel program, was reviewed after 400 participants staged a walkout at a Hershey packing plant.
“We need to cut the cord on the Afghan forces and let them figure it out themselves,” writes Ker.
“Mr. Omar did a very brave thing and I can only hope that many thousands more Syrian soldiers defect to the people's side,” writes pippi.
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A portrait of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia adorned a cappuccino in Moscow.
It is time for Russia to stop blocking constructive action by the United Nations against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad.
Evelyn M. Rusli discusses Facebook’s plans for its public offering.
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A high school student writes about his family’s struggle as undocumented immigrants in the United States and his hope for a better future.
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The Lede »Chinese Writer Sues Over Accusations of GhostwritingThe writer Han Han filed a libel libel suit against Fang Zhouzi, a prominent muckraking blogger. |
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