Author: mike

Charlie Bell, chief executive of fast food giant McDonald’s, has stepped down – after just seven months in the role – to focus on his battle with cancer. Mr Bell, 44, underwent surgery for...

There’s been endless hot air and waffle about the shooting dead of prisoners by a Marine. Here’s the personal blog entry of the journalist who captured it on film.

The officers said the exact number of extra troops needed is still being reviewed but estimated it at the equivalent of several battalions, or about 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers … “Our assessment is that...

When Ghamer, 36, and his uncle, Mohammad, 52, walked up the street to the school, Ghamer held a wooden stock with a ragged white cloth tacked to it. He rolled up the white cloth...

A relief convoy of ambulances and supplies Monday was turned back by Iraqi authorities or U.S. Marines from entering Fallujah … the Iraqi Red Crescent convoy of four ambulances and four trucks carrying supplies...

Troops have cut off all roads and bridges leading out of Fallujah and have turned back hundreds of men trying to flee the city during the assault. Only women, children and the elderly can...

French forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside an evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony...

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base...