WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The key to a successful exit from Afghanistan is tribal. The U.S. government urgently needs to upgrade its knowledge of Afghan tribal loyalties.

LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The Norwegian Nobel Committee has piled him high with lemons; here's how Barack Obama can make lemonade.

OSLO, Norway, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- List of Nobel Peace Prize winners:

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Anthony D. Marshall, the son of Brooke Astor, was convicted Thursday of stealing from the ailing New York society matriarch before she died, the court revealed.

BEIJING, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Sixty years ago when Mao Zedong ushered the birth of the People's Republic of China under Communist rule, the Great Helmsman's message was: "The Chinese people have stood up."

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Four former Washington arms control negotiators Thursday hailed the U.N. Security Council's unanimous approval of a nuclear disarmament resolution.

OSLO, Norway, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- List of Nobel Peace Prize winners.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Last Sunday Barack Obama's national security adviser, retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, made the television morning talk show rounds. Perhaps the most provocative question fired at him was why he was playing a far less visible -- and critics would add even an invisible -- role than his more famous predecessors such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Jones' answer was simple and direct as befitting a former commandant of the Marine Corps and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

BRYN MAWR, Pa., June 17 (UPI) -- Retired Vice Adm. James Calvert, who commanded the first U.S. submarine to visit the North Pole, has died at 88.