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Germany is willing to expand its military engagement in Afghanistan, visiting Defense Minister Peter Struck (search) said Tuesday, offering to take charge of NATO’s security operation across the north of the country. “We want in no way to reduce our engagement in Afghanistan but rather to improve it, above all …

LITTLETON, Colo. – Friends and family members of those killed in the Columbine (search) school shooting marked the six-year anniversary of the massacre Wednesday by visiting victims’ grave sites and placing flowers on black granite crosses honoring the dead. No formal observances were planned in the memory of the 12 …

LOS ANGELES – A tabletop experiment created nuclear fusion (search) — long seen as a possible clean energy solution — under lab conditions, scientists reported. But the amount of energy produced was too little to be seen as a breakthrough in solving the world’s energy needs. For years, scientists have …