Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
A top Iranian general said government troops are “ready to sacrifice our lives” rather than back down in the face of protests over June’s disputed presidential election.
Gen. Sayyed Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of Iran’s Joint Armed Forces, said Iranian soldiers were willing to die as they did in the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, [...]
At least four people were killed and 32 wounded as six Baghdad-area churches were bombed within 24 hours, officials told CNN.
The first bombing took place Saturday night at St. Joseph’s church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded at about 10 p.m. No one was in [...]
Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti as a suspect in his killing, according to local reports.
Gatti was found dead Saturday in a hotel in Brazil, where he was taking a vacation with his wife, Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues, and their young child.
The 37-year-old Canadian, who was born in Italy [...]
Hoping to end a string of delays, NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday on a mission to deliver the last piece of Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
Liftoff is scheduled for 7:13 p.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Forecasters predicted a 70 percent chance [...]
Two men were seriously injured during the traditional Running of the Bulls in the Spanish city of Pamplona on Sunday, one day after another runner was gored to death there for the first time since 2003, media reported.
Television showed one man being gored in the neck before he was trampled under the hooves of [...]
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the latest deaths in an escalation of violence that has put pressure on coalition leaders over their war strategy.
Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of British soldiers have been fighting major new offensives in the past 10 days [...]
The CIA withheld information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism program on orders from former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a U.S. senator said on Sunday amid calls for an investigation.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told “Fox News Sunday” that CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed Cheney’s involvement when he briefed members of Congress two weeks [...]
Honduras’ interim government on Sunday lifted a curfew imposed since the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, saying it had succeeded in restoring calm and reducing crime.
The announcement by the caretaker administration of President Roberto Micheletti, installed by Honduras’ Congress after the coup, came as a relief for the already battered economy [...]
As British troops moved into the village newly freed from Taliban control, they heard one message from the anxious locals: for God’s sake do not bring back the Afghan police.
U.S. and British troops have launched a campaign to seize control of Helmand province, about half of which was in Taliban hands, and restore Afghan [...]
Palestinians reject any deal between Israel and the United States that would allow even limited Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a top Palestinian negotiator said on Sunday.
“There are no middle-ground solutions for the settlement issue: either settlement activity stops or it doesn’t stop,” Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio.
Erekat said [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombedWife held in boxing champ’s killing in BrazilNASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launchTwo injured in Pamplona bull run, day after deathTwo U.S. soldiers killed, Afghan war heats upCheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator