SOCHI, Russia - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning. “Our fundamental attitude toward the American plan has not changed,” Putin said at a news conference with Bush at his vacation house... 

BUCHAREST, Romania — NATO leaders agreed Thursday to endorse a United States missile defense system based in Europe and to provide more troops for Afghanistan, but they refused to back President Bush’s proposal to bring Ukraine and Georgia closer to NATO membership. Washington’s failure to win over Germany, France, Italy, Spain and other crucial European countries to its view on Ukraine and... 

NEW DELHI, March 5: India successfully tested a naval version of the Brahmos cruise missile at the Andamans coast this morning, the defence ministry announced. The naval version of the Brahmos cruise missile was launched from the decks of INS Rajput at 10.30 a.m. and hit a land target in one of the islands of Andaman and Nicobar, said a defence ministry official. Defence Research Development Organisation...