Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when he unveils his long-awaited strategy for the Afghan conflict next Tuesday, US media reports said today.
Buddhist author Robert Thurman uses the atom to explain the Buddhist belief that nothing in the universe is indivisible. He says while scientists strive to "bump up against something hard," their quest is futile because all matter is "infinitely divisible."
Three graduates of University of California, Berkeley have been accused by the Iranian government’s top prosecutor of spying. The three were arrested after crossing into Iranian territory during a hike in northern Iraq at the end of July.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan's call for more troops - "or else the mission will be a failure" - gives President Obama a stark set of options for the next step in Afghanistan.
