Sam Nunn

Munich Security conference looking beyond Europe to Asia. The Munich Security Conference opens Friday with an evening address by China's foreign minister ? a shift from the meeting's traditional trans-Atlantic focus in a nod to the growing importance of Asia.

FRAMINGHAM - Attorney General Martha Coakley pulled up in a Ford Taurus, smiling and waving yesterday to several dozen sign-wielding enthusiasts waiting for her outside a Greek restaurant. She shook hands, accepted kisses on the cheek, and attempted to rile up a dining room full of about 75 supporters as she launched a five-day statewide tour full of the kind of retail politicking that has so far been largely absent from her US Senate primary campaign. ``Let's make some noise!'' she said. With the major debates now over, most of the endorsements in hand, and last-minute television and radio ads up and running, the four Democrats vying for the Senate began turning their attention yesterday to their final appeals to voters in the closing days of the primary campaign. US Representative Michael E. Capuano went to Gloucester to receive the mayor's endorsement and met with veterans in Dorchester. City Year cofounder Alan Khazei trolled for votes at a Lawrence pizza house, was slated to speak

US reaction to Obama's win of Nobel Peace Prize ranges from praise to criticism. Some U.S. reaction to President Barack Obama's win of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday:

Obama-led UN Security Council backs broad agenda for nuclear weapon-free world. With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them, to usher in a world with "undiminished security for all."

Obama-led UN Security Council backs broad agenda for nuclear weapon-free world. With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them, to usher in a world with "undiminished security for all."

World leaders Thursday vowed to work to stop the spread of atomic weapons and rid the planet of nuclear arms at an unprecedented Security Council summit hosted by US President Barack Obama.

World leaders Thursday vowed to work to stop the spread of atomic weapons and rid the planet of nuclear arms at an unprecedented Security Council summit hosted by US President Barack Obama.

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows. Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

Massive U.S.-funded chemical weapons destruction plant to open in Russia. The bland buildings in western Siberia contain shelf after shelf of nerve-gas shells ? some 2 million in all.

NK test and a US nod to Obama-backed nuclear test treaty could set off global chain reaction. A decade after its defeat on the Senate floor, the treaty to ban all atomic bomb tests has found new life in the age of Obama, and at a time of renewed nuclear defiance by North Korea.

Terrorism: After long demanding that Pakistan get a legitimately elected president, Democrats now threaten to abandon his war efforts. Meanwhile, the Taliban and al-Qaida eye Islamabad's sizable nuclear arsenal.