CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and U.S.-led troops Saturday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- When the Sunni sheik sent his representatives into the heaving Baghdad slum where a Shiite militia holds sway, many people thought he was courting disaster. Sunnis who enter Sadr City are have been stuffed into the trunks of cars.