The United States on Monday stood by plans to halve the number of its troops in Afghanistan this year and reduce them further in 2016 following Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's suggestion that President Barack Obama review his deadline.
Staff reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of Novartis AG's copy of Amgen Inc's blockbuster cancer drug Neupogen.
The Vatican may try a man who scaled St. Peter's Basilica to protest against laws that he says lost him his business in Italy, a spokesman for the papal city state said on Friday.
Facebook photos posted by Sarah Palin showing her son Trig using the family dog as a step stool unleashed online fury on Friday reminiscent of the public reaction to the disclosure that Mitt Romney had once driven with his dog strapped on the car's roof.
