A mounting death toll in Syria is prompting calls for stronger international action to oust President Bashar al-Assad. While the Obama administration is backing diplomacy, sanctions, and non-lethal aid to promote change, a U.S. lawmaker is demanding stronger measures.
A prominent U.S. newspaper is reporting that U.S. President Barack Obama – in his first months in office – secretly ordered sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities.
A suicide car bomber struck the NATO base outside of the city of Khost today. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The first commercial vehicle to visit and replenish the space station, has splashed down in the Pacific, six hours after undocking from its berth there. Crews are now standing by to retrieve the capsule bobbing in the ocean hundreds of miles west of Baja California.