Boeing 777 en route to Beijing missing, Malaysia Airlines says

Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed.

Navy: Water near Red Hill fuel tank leak in Hawaii is safe

Navy officials said as much as 27,000 gallons of fuel may have leaked from tanks at Red Hill. The 200-foot tall cylinders can hold more than 12 million gallons each.

US Navy dispatches destroyer, P-3C in search of Malaysian airliner

The US Navy dispatched the USS Pinckney and a P-3C Orion aircraft to assist in the search of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared somewhere over the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning.

Court rejects former soldier's murder conviction appeal

A military appeals court has rejected the latest appeal from a former Fort Bragg soldier convicted in 2010 of a 1985 triple murder.

Ex-Special Forces soldier sentenced in Afghanistan embezzlement scheme

Mauricio Espinoza was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for his role in stealing more than $200,000 in taxpayer money while deployed to Afghanistan.

Frustration in Afghan women's rights struggle

In 2009, the United States gave Wazhma Frogh the International Woman of Courage award for her women's rights activism in Afghanistan. In Frogh's office is a picture of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton granting her the award as First Lady Michelle Obama smiles, clapping by her side. Four years later, trying to get away from an Afghan militia commander, she was denied a U.S. visa.

The last casualties: As a long war ends, risks still prove real

These days, 12 years after the start of America's longest war, far fewer U.S. troops are being killed or wounded in Afghanistan. The military's drawdown has picked up pace, and Afghans have begun to shoulder the brunt of the fighting. But the war continues to churn out American casualties by the dozen each week. Their injuries rarely make headlines.

Who was behind deadly Kiev snipers? Russia, Ukraine point fingers

One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who was behind the snipers who sowed death and terror in Kiev?

Analysis

Putin doesn’t see America as weak, former US ambassador to Moscow says

Plotting a U.S. response to Vladimir Putin’s land grab in Ukraine requires an understanding that the Russian leader operates without a clear-cut foreign policy and out of “dual impulses” of asserting Moscow’s power while courting Western approval, according to an American diplomat who observed him up close for five years.