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The first cargo planes with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and sniffer dogs headed to the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation a day after the magnitude 7.0 quake flattened much of the capital of 2 million people. Haitian President Rene Preval says he believes the death toll stretches into the thousands.

Haitians made a frantic search for survivors Wednesday after a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the capital of Port-au-Prince, even as rubble-filled streets quickly piled up with bodies.

After attacks originating in China targeted Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese human rights activists, Google has announced that it will stop censoring results on the Chinese version of its search engine and may pull out of the country entirely.

The largest earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years rocked the Caribbean nation Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and heavily damaging other buildings. U.S. officials reported bodies lying in the streets and an aid official described "total disaster and chaos."

The headwaters of the Middle East's great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, originate in Turkey, which controls flow of the waters to the Arab world downstream. A three-year drought has devastated Syria and Iraq, fueling resentment against the Turks.

The U.S. is sending thousands of additional troops — and other resources — to Afghanistan in a bid to wipe out al-Qaida. But the attempted Christmas Day bombing was planned in Yemen and allegedly carried out by a Nigerian. Should the U.S. be focusing so much of its efforts in Afghanistan?

From his inaugural address on the steps of the nation's Capitol to his historic June speech at Cairo University, President Obama has repeatedly pledged to repair U.S. relations with the Muslim world, where the U.S. is waging two wars.

The failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner has triggered a new wave of scrutiny of the U.S. government's approach to aviation security. There are questions about whether the U.S. government is being aggressive enough in implementing other kinds of measures to detect suspicious passengers.

The Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. airplane has exposed critical weaknesses in airport security measures. Critics have focused on technological and intelligence gaps, but some also question whether authorities are focused enough on other measures to identify suspicious people.

There are many hurdles in Afghanistan as President Obama deploys thousands of additional troops. In the first of a five-part series, we look at one of the biggest challenges: the government in Kabul.