After a bloody week of fighting, the death toll of Syrian rebels and Syrian Government soldiers fighting for control of the police academy outside Aleppo totaled 120 Soldiers and 80 rebels.
Karachi and its citizens have begun holding funerals for the 45 people killed in the car bomb explosion that ripped through the area outside of a mosque in that city. Besides the 45 killed, another 150 were injured.
After admitting to, and pleading guilty, in the rape and robbery of a Okinawa woman last year, two U.S. sailors were sentenced in an Okinawa court on Friday.
As the fight to drive out or capture the islamic militants from Mali continues, France reports fierce fighting in the mountainous region of northern Mali.