Pentagon: Leaked Afghan reports are not top-secret

U.S. officials from the president down tried Tuesday to downplay the leak of tens of thousands of documents about the war in Afghanistan, a disclosure experts are calling the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers about Vietnam.

Leaked reports describe Afghan war, sometimes in mundane detail

Journalists and other observers around the world spent Monday poring over a vast cache of documents a whistleblower website says are U.S. reports that exhaustively chronicle the twists, turns and horror of the 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.

The best and worst fashion trends of the decade Style Matters In a decade of war and catastrophe, the advent of ...

This rocky decade of war, terrorism, global warming and economic catastrophe is at last drawing to a close. Such things aren't normally considered to have a profound effect on fashion, but fashion, li

Divorce olympics

A nasty, "War of the Roses"-type divorce is rocking one of Europe's oldest hedge funds -- the onetime $3.4 billion Ikos family of funds founded by the now-battling husband-and-wife team whose privileged life of private jets, yachts and, recently, a possible 23-year-old Brazilian mistress has become the...

Jeff Ball: Other insects, birds defend lawn against Japanese beetles

Nancy Szerlag is a gentle person, but let Japanese beetles attack her roses and she becomes downright vicious. She takes her can of soapy water out into the war zone and shows no mercy; all the Japanese beetles she sees are dispatched with no regrets.