Foreign Policy has been publishing the list of failed states since 2005. You can see how each country received its ranking, and where it has placed in the past years. Somalia has been No. 1 for the past three years. 177 countries were analyzed from an extensive variety of sources.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her speech at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., addressed the sate of global Internet freedom. She touched on subjects such as data networks enhancing the effectiveness of disaster relief efforts, using the Web to make political voices heard in oppressive regimes, and even the ways the freedom of expression guaranteed online can be abused by terrorists and hate groups.

One of the largest earthquakes in the region, with a magnitude of 7.0, has hit Haiti Tuesday, killing possibly thousands, leveling buildings and destroying infrastructure. Reports say thousands of people are living out on the streets in the dust-covered capital.

The quake has been declared "catastrophic" by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Thousands remain missing, including personnel at the United Nations headquarters.

Relief agencies from numerous countries have begun deploying aid, but the full scale of the disaster is still unknown.

World leaders assembled in Strasbourg shared their views on the importance of supporting the war in Afghanistan, expressing a commonly held fear that al-Qaeda would be very likely more able to launch a terrorist attack in Europe than in the United States because of geographic proximity.

John Barry and Evan Thomas express their view on how Afghanistan is starting to eerily look like Vietnam.

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Frederick W. Kagan discusses the dissimilarities between the Vietnam War and Afghanistan, offering points on how to avoid the 21st century conflict from taking turns in similar directions. He agrees that the counterinsurgency approach is feasible and that in order to succeed, Coalition Forces must be able to establish security of the population, but he also recognizes the often publicized problems with the trust in the Afghan government.