“I was born, and they took a picture,” says Liza Minnelli, expressing the reality of growing up in the flashbulb-popping, gossip-saturated spotlight as Hollywood royalty—as the daughter of ...

Iran supports the ousted Afghan government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was driven out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996 but still clings to a toehold in the northeast of the country. The outcast ...