Nobel Peace Prize

STOCKHOLM - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. The insight has been hailed as one...

It was a brave decision for President Barack Obama to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan -- and the right one. And he defended it eloquently in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize. Now, of course, comes the hard part -- not just in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but in U.S. politics...