A NEW ‘cocoon bed’ lets slumberers enjoy a good night’s sleep suspended between trees like a butterfly before it emerges from its chrysalis.These images show the just-released Cocoon Tree hovering between trees thanks to a system of suspension wires. It is the brainchild of ...

For months, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have argued over whether Iraq was the right war to fight in 2003. On Friday night they delved for the first time into the problems one of them will face on Jan. 20: Whether America has to be ready to carry out military action inside Pakistan, an ...

Turkish media say an explosion in the western province of Izmir has injured 13. Private television says the explosion occurred Thursday morning near a bus carrying police officers. It says three of the injured were civilians and the rest were soldiers or police officers. It was unclear how severe ...