Officials say a Vietnam War-era artillery shell has exploded at a coffee plantation. Four men were injured, three seriously. Vo Cong Khanh, chief of Huong Tan village in central Quang Tri province, says the explosion occurred Sunday when a man working with a hoe hit the shell while ...

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday following complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Rep. Bob Brady, a longtime friend, said the late congressman's large intestine was damaged during surgery and an infection ...

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery ...

A Vietnamese court convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison Friday in a one-day trial that rights groups said was meant to silence government critics. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was found guilty by the Hanoi court of assaulting two ...