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NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on

The NATO leaders gather for a group photo during the NATO Summit in Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012. Front row from left are Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Belgium Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, President Barack Obama, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic, Romanian President Traian Basescu, and Portugese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Back row from left are Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Siguroardottir, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, Latvian President Andris Berzins, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:39:25Z
UN nuclear chief in Iran on key mission

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan and Herman Nackaerts, from left, of the IAEA the chief agency official in charge of the Iran file speak to the media before his flight to Iran at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, on Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency arrived Monday in Tehran on a key mission that could lead to the resumption of probes by the watchdog on whether Iran has secretly worked on an atomic weapon.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:41:43Z
Trial starting for Fort Hood bomb plot suspect
Police officers suddenly rushed the young man wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap as he walked out of a motel toward an idling cab near a Texas Army post.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:53:28Z
Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward

The annular solar eclipse is seen as the sun sets behind the Rocky Mountains from downtown Denver late on Sunday, May 20, 2012. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun, was visible across Asia as well as the southwest part of the United States. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire."
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:33:05Z
Clemens trial resumes with more from ex-trainer

FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, former Major League baseball pitcher Roger Clemens' former trainer Brian McNamee leaves federal court in Washington. McNamee testified Friday that some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government's key witness.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:44:25Z
Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC

Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, center left, exchanges documents with Zhang Lin, vice president of Wanda during a signing ceremony for Dalian Wanda Group Co. to acquire AMC Entertainment Holdings in Beijing, China, Monday, May 21, 2012. The Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion to create the world's biggest movie theater operator. Looking on at right is Eliot Merrill, representative of AMC shareholders. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:29:46Z
Trans-Pacific 'ring of fire' eclipse wows sky-gazers

Many in Tokyo got a spectacular sight of the

Millions of sky-gazers got the spectacle of a lifetime as a "ring of fire" solar eclipse crossed the Pacific from Asia to the United States, where it triggered whoops at festive viewing parties.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:50:21Z