Astor, recently the center of a highly publicized legal dispute over her care, died of pneumonia at Holly Hill, her Westchester County estate in Briarcliff Manor, family lawyer Kenneth Warner said. «Brooke was a truly remarkable woman and an irreplaceable friend,» longtime family friend David Rockefeller said. «She was the leading lady of New York […]

A roadside bomb has killed a member of the NATO force trying to take control of the southern Afghan town. Fighter jets, drones and attack helicopters hovered overhead, as Marine and Afghan companies moved on a 2-square-mile area of the town where more than 40 insurgents have apparently holed up. «They are squeezed,» said Lt. […]

Rescue workers in Madeira have dug through heaps of mud, boulders and debris, searching for victims buried by floods and mudslides that have killed at least 42 people on the popular Portuguese island. Residents looking for missing loved ones were directed by local authorities Sunday to the resort’s international airport, where a makeshift morgue has […]

After a contentious 16-hour cabinet meeting, a key partner walked out of Jan Peter Balkenende’s coalition, accusing the prime minister of reneging on a pledge to withdraw 1,600 troops this year from Uruzgan province, where 21 Dutchmen already have died. CBSNews.com Special Report: Afghanistan The collapse of the center-right government was the result of discontent […]