| |   Homs bombardment resumes as Russian minister heads to Syria
| Rebel stronghold remains under siege, with opposition reporting at least 50 deaths from latest violence An explosion in Homs on Monday. The bombardment is reported to have continued on Tuesday morning as the ...
Disaster relief must be more local and national, Oxfam says
| NGO's report says western donors must build up local and national groups to cope with expected rise in global disasters A makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, after an earthquake devastated Haiti in February 201...
Search for a Syria strategy focuses on stiffening fragmented opposition
| Arab and western governments contemplate backing the Free Syrian Army as hopes fade of a negotiated peace A boy carries the unofficial Syrian rebel flag during an anti-regime demonstration in al-Qusayr, south...
'Gunmen kill 5 in Libyan refugee camp'
Tripoli: Gunmen killed five Libyan refugees at their camp in a Tripoli suburb on Monday, residents and hospital sources said, underscoring the volatility in the country months after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow....
Teen tennis star Tomic disappointed at car controversy
| Teenage Australian tennis star Bernard Tomic said Tuesday he was disappointed to have been caught up in another controversy involving his high-powered, bright orange sports car, and he plans to sell it. | The...
KRouge jailer's life term 'bad example': observers
| A life term handed to a feared Khmer Rouge jailer has elated Cambodians, but observers say the historic verdict violates the torture chief's human rights and serves public opinion rather than justice. | Kaing...
S. Korea cram school accused of hi-tech copying
| A top cram school in education-obsessed South Korea used tiny audio recorders and cameras hidden in pens to record exam questions and then passed them on to students, prosecutors said Tuesday. | They said the...
Death toll in Pakistan factory collapse up to 18
| ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rescue official says the death toll from a factory that collapsed in eastern Pakistan has risen to 18. | The factory, which manufactured medicine, caved in Monday in the city of Lahore af...
US, Japan mull sending 4,700 Marines to Guam
| TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan, hoping to break a stalemate over the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, are discussing a plan to transfer nearly 5,000 troops to Guam despite their failure to repla...
Five missing after Japan refinery tunnel collapse
| Divers were searching for five workers after an undersea tunnel collapsed at one of Japan's biggest oil refineries Tuesday, emergency services said. | Six people were in the partially constructed tunnel at Ku...
Remarks at Euro-Atlantic Security Community Initiative
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 5:15 pm | Press Release: US State Department | Remarks at Euro-Atlantic Security Community Initiative and Keynote Session Q&A | Remarks | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Secretary of State | ...
Syria: Russia on the wrong side
| Already grindingly destructive and violent, the 11-month long Syrian crisis has suddenly turned worse. The most searing evidence of that was felt on the streets of the insurgent stronghold of Homs on Monday, ...
Kylie Minogue calls police over Twitter 'weirdo' threat
| Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has alerted police to an online stalker -- a "deluded weirdo" issuing threats over Twitter, she wrote on the micro-blogging site on Tuesday. | The diminutive singer told her ...
US, Japan mulling Marines' transfer to Guam
| TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan are discussing a plan to transfer thousands of troops to Guam despite their failure to replace a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japan island of Okinawa. | Of...
Maldives soldiers fire rubber bullets at police
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives soldiers on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and clashed with police officers who were defying a presidential order to end a protest against what they perceive as illegal orders b...
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