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A small-acreage farmer has taken advantage of the warm weather in southwest England by planting a crop usually seen in the balmy Mediterranean — olives.

Turkey's Islamist-rooted government has vowed to press on with presidential elections after the top court annulled the first round of voting. This paves the way for early general elections. The opposition, backed by Turkey's powerful military establishment, is trying to block the election of a moderate Islamist as the country's new head of state.

President Bush has made good on his promise to veto a $124 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that includes a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. The president vetoed the measure a few hours after Congress sent it to him, capping a day of political theater in Washington.

A strongly worded new report says Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rushed into a full-blown war with Hezbollah after the militant Shiite group attacked a military patrol in a deadly cross-border raid, capturing two Israeli soldiers July 12.

A State Assembly committee has narrowly approved a measure that would require warning labels on flavored alcoholic drinks known as “alcopops”. Supporters of the bill say underage drinkers are big co

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, has been on the job for two months. He says he still hopes to help establish a unified Iraq, but acknowledges the situation is as "complex" there as any he's seen.

Thousands of U.S. troops have cone through the Baghdad-based COIN academy to learn how to combat insurgents in Iraq. They learn techniques to fight battles that differ greatly from conventional warfare.

Prize-winning Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne sets his sights on Paris — with a design for a 984-foot-tall office building aimed at bringing life to a bleak part of the city of light.

Monday, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz faces a World Bank panel that may decide his fate. Wolfowitz has been accused of ethics violations over getting his girlfriend a promotion at the bank.

An important objective of the "surge" of nearly 30,000 additional United States troops into Iraq was to give the Iraqi government the opportunity to resolve some factional differences, make policy changes and secure a broad-based representative government.