The latest in Kandahar

Austrian team aims for fifth medal

2011-02-14T18:30:38Z

Austria will be aiming for both their fifth medal of the world ski championships and to defend their crown on Wednesday when the team event takes place after a four-year hiatus.

As golden-girl Elisabth Goergl has won both the women's super-G and downhill titles, Anna Fenninger won gold in the super combined and Italy's Christof Innerhofer will be chasing his third straight medal of these world ski championships when the super combined takes place on Monday.

Innerhofer backed up Wednesday's super-G gold when he claimed bronze in the men's downhill on Saturday and the 26-year-old is aiming to keep his purple patch running until the championships end with the men's slalom on Februa...

Vonn and Riesch downhill dominance could end

2011-02-12T18:30:06Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and her great rival Maria Riesch have won the last 15 competitive downhill races between them but their dominance could end at the world championships on Sunda...

Erik Guay claims ski world downhill gold

2011-02-12T10:30:19Z

Canada's Erik Guay won the men's world downhill title on Saturday with Switzerland's Didier Cuche taking silver and Italy's Christof Innerhofer claiming bronze.

Guay stun...

Canada's Guay claims ski world downhill gold

2011-02-12T10:30:13Z

Canada's Erik Guay won the men's world downhill title on Saturday with Switzerland's Didier Cuche taking silver and Italy's Christof Innerhofer claiming bronze.

Guay stun...

Afghanistan

2010-12-27T05:01:09Z

Afghan policemen walk past a damaged police vehicle in their compound after a car bomb explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A car bomb exploded in the heart of the southern city of Kandahar on Monday, killing three people, an Afghan policeman at the scene said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Copyright 2010 Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A car bomb exploded in the heart of the southern city of Kandahar Monday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, an Afghan policeman who witnessed the attack said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Afghan Lessons of War

2010-12-04T10:00:18Z

In this photograph taken Sept. 10, 2010, an Afghan soldier looks out from a guard tower above the Pir Mohammed school, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Over the last six months, U.S. troops have wrested the school away from insurgents. They've hired Afghan contractors to rebuild it, and lost blood ...

Afghanistan Wounded Soldier

2010-11-29T08:32:49Z

A U.S. medevac helicopter arrives to evacuate Spc. Jeremy Kuehl, 24 of Altoona, Iowa, and from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvis...

Afghanistan Hospitals

2010-11-04T23:01:22Z

In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, an elderly Afghan man waits for his turn to be treated for his injuries at a local hospital in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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