In complicating move, al-Qaida backs Syrian revolt Al-Qaida's leader has called for the ouster of Syria's "pernicious, cancerous regime," raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with peaceful calls for democratic change but is morphing into a bloody, armed insurgency.
In Amanda Knox Tale, a Delicate Bet for Publishers The stakes are high for the publisher that ends up paying millions of dollars for Amanda Knox’s version of her story. Will the exoneration of the student in the lurid killing of her roommate appeal to the public?
U.S. Navy: Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf MANAMA (Reuters) - Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region said on Sunday. Iran has made a series of threats in recent weeks to disrupt shipping in the Gulf or strike U.S. forces in retaliation if its oil trade is ...
Whitney Houston found dead in California hotel, age 48 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48. The pop superstar died on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles at the same hotel where her mentor, record mogul Clive Davis, was holding an annual pre ...
Hockey buffs forge on in Buffalo despite lack of ice BUFFALO, NY (Reuters) - An unusually mild winter in upstate New York forced hundreds of amateur ice hockey players in a yearly pond hockey tournament normally held on Buffalo's inner harbor to hit the pavement on Saturday. With no ice on Lake Erie, organizers of the three-day outdoor hockey competition have turned to street hockey, requiring a ball instead of a puck and shoes instead of skates ...
Victims and hostages bond in Philippine kidnap film BERLIN (Reuters) - Boundaries between kidnappers and hostages are blurred in Philippine drama "Captive," which stars French actress Isabelle Huppert and premiered at the Berlin film festival on Sunday. Directed by Filipino Brillante Mendoza and shot with a hand-held camera, the film is loosely based on real life events and tells the story of a group of holiday makers and missionaries kidnapped ...
Kabila aide dies, finance minister hurt in DRC plane crash KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister seriously injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, officials said. The accident, the latest in a country with one of the world's worst air safety records, comes as Kabila braces for negotiations to form a new coalition government after his ...
UN consultant shot dead in Egyptian capital A United Nations freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, Egyptian security officials said, as concerns persist over a security vacuum blamed on lax policing since the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak last year.
Riots spread across Athens, buildings in flames Rioting spread across central Athens and buildings went up in flames amid mass protests, as lawmakers prepared to vote for a crucial debt deal needed to prevent bankruptcy.
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