Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the U.S. ambassador to his country of lying about increased drug trafficking in Venezuela.

President Bush says he plans to increase the number of U.S. military forces to deal with the long-term fight against terrorism.

A new report by the International Crisis Group warns that Iraq faces "complete disintegration into failed state chaos," and urges the United States to adopt a radical change of strategy to end the crisis.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end to the Cold War, which, by most accounts, made the world safer. But some analysts say lingering Cold War legacies and new threats make today's world just as dangerous.