ISLAMABAD – Afghan-led forces stormed a hotel outside Kabul Friday, rescuing civilians taken hostage by heavily armed Taliban gunmen in an overnight siege. Police say at least 20 people were killed in the 12-hour gun battle.
The U.N. Envoy to Syria said today that it is time to "raise the level of pressure" on Syria as well as the opposition forces in that country as news broke of the shooting down of a Turkish Fighter by the Syrian Government.
The much publicized trial of Anders Breivik, the notorious Norwegian who admits to the slaying of 77 innocent people, many of them children, in a dual attack in Oslo last July, has come to a close.
The more Tony Fiorillo explores Alaska, the more dinosaur tracks he finds on its lonely ridgetops. The latest examples are the stone footprints of two different dinosaurs near the tiny settlement of Chisana in the Wrangell Mountains.