CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – For the third time this week, NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery for a Friday night launch to the international space station after resolving a fuel valve problem. The launch team began loading Discovery’s external fuel tank more

BAGHLAN-I-JADID, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents have taken over parts of two northern provinces from which they were driven in 2001, threatening to disrupt NATO’s new supply route from Central Asia and expand a war that’s largely been confined to more

The Space Shuttle Discovery stands on launch pad 39-A as it is prepared for launch after three earlier attempts were scrubbed at the at the Kennedy Space Center August 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle, Getty Images) CAPE CANAVERAL more

BAGHLAN-I-JADID, Afghanistan Taliban insurgents have taken over parts of two northern provinces from which they were driven in 2001, threatening to disrupt NATO’s new supply route from Central Asia and expand a war that has largely been confined to more