Pakistani security forces critically wounded a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, among six militants captured after a firefight near the border Monday

More than 750 people and 230,000 cattle in western Afghanistan have died due to the

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said he favours a "pause" in troop reductions in Iraq after up to 30,000 US soldiers

Patrick, the administrator of YouTorrent, talked to Slyck about his new BitTorrent project. YouTorrent has been making strides in the BitTorrent community since its launch early last month, as the community was largely impressed with its clean GUI and real time search engine. And according to Patrick, this is just the beginning.

The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently "become erratic" after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.