Monday was the scene of more bloodshed in Egypt after 51 were killed and hundreds more were wounded outside of a military facility in Cairo. There is no indication as to what set off the deadly confrontation. The army there blames the retaliation on a terrorist attack, while demonstrators blame the army for the bloodletting. […]
For the tenth straight day shells rained down on the key Syrian city of Homs as the Syrian army continued its push to take control of the city. Tanks, heavy artillery and mortars pummeled key districts in an attempt to cut the northern rebel fighters off from their counterparts in the south.
U.S. Senator Mark Begich today commented on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack’s memorandum specifying direction for the transition in the Tongass National Forest to timber harvest consisting solely of young growth trees.
The pilot of South Korea's Asiana Air Flight 214 that crashed as it was attempting to land at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday had only 43 hours training in the Boeing 777 and was attempting to land that category of aircraft for the first time according to the airlines.