Ten French soldiers killed by the Taliban in 2008 were part of a unit that made incorrect threat assessments because they were unaware that Italian officials had been keeping the peace by bribing local insurgents, according to a Times report.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the deployment of 500 additional UK troops to Afghanistan in an address to parliamentarians Wednesday.

Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1973) discusses some of the big issues facing Barack Obama.

THE INTERVIEW The Photographer Reza was born in 1952 in Tabriz in Iran. In his last book " Chemins parallèles " (Parallel Paths), he brings his son Delazad on the silk road, an initiatory trip of 55 days, by train