The man who outted the U.S. government's secret monitoring of telephone calls and the monitoring of the Internet, Edward Snowden, a former NSA worker, told the South China Morning Post that "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."
In the second major attack since April on the Syrian capital of Damascus, two suicide-bombers detonated twin bombs in the al-Marjeh Square on Tuesday.
China launched a manned space mission on Tuesday from the Gobi Desert. The craft is carrying two men and one woman.
A series of meetings will be held this week at the White House that will most likely determine whether or not the United States will be arming the Syrian rebels and at what extent that arming will reach according to U.S. officials.