NATO leaders signed off Monday on President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters at the conclusion of a two-day summit of the alliance leaders [...]

Didier Drogba has confirmed he will leave Chelsea this summer but Fernando Torres will not be following his fellow striker out of the club despite the Champions League winners’ hierarchy having been left distinctly unimpressed by the timing of the Spaniard’s publicly expressed frustration at life as a bit-part player at Stamford Bridge. Drogba is [...]

The Yemeni government blamed an affiliate of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Tuesday for a massive suicide bombing that killed more than 100 soldiers a day earlier. Jihadist websites have posted a statement purportedly from the group, Ansaar al-Sharia, claiming responsibility for the attack. But CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of [...]

For an insight into the world of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, consider the tale of a humble asterisk. In late February, EU chief negotiator Robert Cooper was nearing a compromise that would bring Serbia and breakaway province Kosovo closer to EU membership and get around their disputes over Kosovo’s right to exist. The [...]

A controversial painting showing South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out has been vandalised in an art gallery. The BBC’s Andrew Harding at the gallery in Johannesburg said two men covered the art work in black and red paint It comes as the governing ANC was asking the High Court to force [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune dropped $2.2 billion as shares of Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking company, fell below the company’s $38 offer price in its second day of trading. The shares sank 11.3 percent to $33.90 at 12:37 p.m. in New York, after declining as much as 13.7 percent to $33. Zuckerberg’s stake is valued [...]

Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee has reported. A year-long probe found 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft, the Senate Armed Services Committee found. More than 70% of an estimated one million suspect parts were traced back to China, the [...]