Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. More recently: Bill Clinton and John McCain.

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Burt Glinn, Magnum Photographer, Dies

Burt Glinn, a photojournalist whose images of historic moments of the Cold War include Fidel Castro's 1959 march on Havana and Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. that year, has died. He was 82.

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This article is a "must read." Those who left Russia found a different set of values in America: freedom of religion, speech, individual pursuits, the right to private property and free enterprise.

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In response to a declassification request by the National Security Archive, the secretive National Security Agency has declassified large portions of a four-part "top-secret Umbra" study, American Cryptology during the Cold War.

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David Ignatius pauses to look back at John F Kennedy's first year in office, reminding us that it was essentially an unmitigated disaster:

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Classified documents reveal that ministers ordered officials to lie about what happened to a naval frogman 51 years ago.

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Vladimir Putin dropped his diplomatic bombshell at the EU-Russian summit at the Mafra Palace, in Portugal, when he compared the American proposal to build a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe to the Cuban missile crisis.

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The iconic image of the young John F Kennedy Jr saluting the coffin of his assassinated father reappeared on television and in newspapers last month, accompanying obituaries for Joe O'Donnell that lauded him as one of the greats of American photojournalism.

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