Syrian army defectors gather at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday Jan. 20, 2012.
photo: AP
Arab League to decide on Syria mission's fate
read more Al Jazeera
Arab League foreign ministers are due to meet in Cairo to discuss the future of an observer mission in Syria that critics say has failed to halt the bloodshed in the country. The regional bloc is expected to extend the Arab League monitoring mission, even boosting observer numbers, after foreign ministers are...
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C.
photo: AP / Matt Rourke
Gingrich wins York County, Santorum 2nd
read more The Charlotte Observer
YORK COUNTY York County voters spoke resoundingly with South Carolina Saturday night naming Newt Gingrich the candidate they’d most like to see go toe-to-toe with the president in November. The former U.S. Speaker of the House captured 38 percent of the vote in York County, where less than a week ago he was trailing the seemingly inevitable...
Supporters of the Egyptian Social Democratic party attend a demonstration calling for human rights in Cairo Egypt, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The banners in Arabic, read, "no to Mubarak's oppressive regime, Egyptians must wait for their freedom, the people still want justice."
photo: AP / Mohammed Abu Zaid
Egypt's Islamists win 75 percent of parliament
read more The Guardian
AYA BATRAWY Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups. The Islamist domination of Egypt's parliament has worried...
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu
Death toll in Nigeria attack rises to 143
read more Newsday
-- The number of people killed by a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city is at least 143, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group's deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror in 's most populous nation. Soldiers and police officers swarmed 's streets as Nigeria's...
Italian navy scuba divers sail past the cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
Cruise Ship Threatens Marine Paradise Off Italy
read more Jakarta Globe
Porto Ercole, Italy. Stone fortresses and watchtowers that centuries ago stood guard against marauding pirates loom above pristine waters threatened by a modern peril: fuel trapped within the capsized Costa Concordia luxury liner. About 2,400 tons of heavy fuel oil is in danger of leaking out and polluting some of the Mediterranean’s most...
Palestinians display their birds for selling at the market in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on September 18 , 2011. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn)
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu
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The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to give other international experts time to discuss the work and determine how it can proceed without putting the world at risk of a potentially catastrophic pandemic. Suspensions of biomedical research are almost unheard...
FILE - An Iranian flag flutters in this image released Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008 taken at an undisclosed location in Iran, that shows a missile prior to a test firing by Iranian armed forces.
photo: AP / Fars News Agency, Vahid Reza Alaei
Major powers divided on approach to Iran
read more Zeenews
Washington: Major powers are divided over what to put on the table should Iran resume talks on curbing its nuclear program and whether to allow it to continue enriching uranium to some degree, diplomats said on Friday. Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States on Friday signalled their openness to fresh talks about Iran's...
FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo an Emirates A380 plane is mirrored at the entrance of Airbus in Hamburg, Germany.
photo: AP / dapd, Philipp Guelland, File
Safety checks urged after cracks are found on A380 wing parts
read more The Los Angeles Times
Europe's air safety authority told airlines Friday to inspect nearly a third of the world's A380 super jumbo jets after Airbus found new cracks in metal brackets inside the wings. The European Aviation Safety Agency issued an airworthiness directive that called for "a detailed visual inspection" of the aircraft's so-called "wing rib feet" —...
Syrian policemen, stand guard in front the U.S embassy in Damascus as they secure it from angry protesters, during a demonstration against the last US raid at a village near the Syrian-Iraqi border, in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Oct. 30, 2008.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
US considering closing embassy in Syria
read more Atlanta Journal
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday it "may have no choice" but to close the U.S. embassy in Damascus and remove all US personnel from the country wracked by a 10-month revolt against the regime of President Bashar Assad unless Assad's government takes extra steps to protect the mission. Protesters seen through the Syrian national...
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper drives past a fast-moving brush fire burns in Pleasant Valley, south of Reno, Nev., on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012.
photo: AP / Cathleen Allison
26 homes lost in Reno fire and 2,000 evacuated
read more The State
RENO, Nev. - Reno hasn't seen a winter this dry in more than 120 years. So residents welcomed a forecast that a storm was due to blow across the Sierra Nevada this week. Instead, as many as 10,000 found themselves fleeing their homes while howling winds gusting to 82 mph pushed a fire toward them, destroying 26 homes and torching thousands of...
BAGHDAD (AP) — An international human rights group says Iraq's Shiite-led government has...
SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — A crowd of anti-military activists suddenly...
Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melting pot. Here’s a committed devotee of...
 
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
Reporting from Kano, Nigeria, and Johannesburg,— A militant Islamic group whose almost daily attacks have put Nigerians on edge left the country stunned Saturday after a well-coordinated strike with disturbing echoes of Al Qaeda's brand of...
photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu
Leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guard on top of a hill near El Calvario, 60 miles of Bogota, Saturday, March 29, 1998. The rebels kidnapped four American bird watchers and an Italian businessman at a roadblock earlier this week and are evaluating the foreigners' wealth to decide how much ransom to de
Colombian FARC rebels have attacked a radar installation in Cauca province, killing a guard and delaying flights in the south of the Andean nation as well as some bound for neighbouring Ecuador and Panama, the civil aviation authority said. Guerrilla...
photo: AP / Ricardo Mazalan
Holding banners and flags about hundred thousands of people gather in the square in front of the Parliament building (unseen) during the "Peace March for Hungary", a demonstration organized by private persons to support the center-right Hungarian government in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people rallied Saturday in a show of support for the embattled Hungarian government, as it prepares to compromise in a bitter fight with the European Union to secure a vital loan. Labeled a "March of Peace" the...
photo: AP / MTI, Peter Lakatos
French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks to French troops at the 152nd Infantry Regiment military base in Tora in the region of Surobi, Afghanistan Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — France's threat Friday to withdraw early from Afghanistan after an Afghan soldier killed four French troops and wounded 15 is a setback for the U.S.-led coalition's efforts to build a national...
photo: AP / Philippe Wojazer, Pool
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011.
He stands accused of funding rebels who hacked the arms off small children, smuggling blood diamonds, keeping sex slaves and torturing his opponents, but former Liberian President Charles Taylor also had another career - providing information to US...
photo: AP / Jerry Lampen
FILE - In a Jan. 28, 2010, file photo, Sarah Burke, of Canada, reacts after failing to place in the top-three finishers in the slopestyle skiing women's final at the Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain outside Aspen, Colo.
Canadian freestyle skiing star, Sarah Burke died on Thursday, due to trauma sustained during a halfpipe training run on January 10 in Park City, UT. With family and friends bedside, she was pronounced dead by medical staff at the University of Utah...
photo: AP / David Zalubowski
The first batch of a total 300 Filipino crew of the ill-fated cruise liner Costa Concordia, arrive on a regular flight Thursday Jan. 19, 2012 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport after being repatriated f
Manila: Filipino crewmembers of the stricken ship MV Costa Concordia arrived home to heroes' welcome a week after their ordeal off the coast of Grosetto, Tuscany, Italy. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in a statement greeted the 129 Filipino...
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
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