North Korean media announced on Friday that that country's number two man in the government was executed for his crimes on Thursday, answering the question posed by western media as to what had happened to Jang Song thaek after his being escorted from a Politburo meeting on December 8th.
Loretta Fuddy, the state of Hawaii's Health Director, died in the crash of a small aircraft one-half mile off of the coast of Molokai late Wednesday.
Bangladesh on Thursday executed an opposition leader convicted of war crimes hours after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute appeal.
The United States and Britain has suspended non-lethal aid to the opposition forces in Syria after warehouses belonging to the Supreme Military Council was taken over and supplies were seized by the Islamic Front, a group of seven major rebel brigades.