BEIRUT ( AP) — The Red Cross dispatched an aid convoy to an embattled neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs today, and the U.N. said it was alarmed by reports of execution-style killings after the Syrian army seized the area from rebel forces. The seizure of Baba Amr by the Syrian army was a […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber killed 23 people, many of them believed to be militants, in an attack today on the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan, a government official said. The blast took place in the Tirah Valley region close to the border with Afghanistan, where clashes earlier in […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials said they’ve recovered the bodies of two of the three crewmembers who had been missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay in Alabama. Searchers recovered the remains of Lt. Cmdr. Dale Taylor of Snow Hill, N.C., and Lt. j.g. Thomas Cameron of Portland, Ore., on Thursday, […]

LONDON ( AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron stood before the world’s media today and finally admitted: Yes, he had ridden the horse. News that the Metropolitan Police had entrusted a retired police horse named Raisa to former News International chief Rebekah Brooks and her horse- trainer husband Charlie provided light relief this week amid […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Sgt. Brandon Morgan didn’t expect to become a global phenomenon when he kissed his partner upon returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. But then last weekend a friend posted a photo of their embrace on the Gay Marines page on Facebook. Morgan, in desert camouflage, is seen wrapping his legs around […]

WASHINGTON ( AP) — Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree. Snowe, the Senate’s most liberal Republican, found herself in a familiar spot Thursday as the only member of her party to join […]

LOS ANGELES Caustic commentator Andrew Breitbart was loved by conservatives who championed his viral Internet exposes that brought down politicians, and hated by others who said he selectively used the truth to do it. The conservative media publisher and activist who died Thursday at 43 was embraced by anti-tax, conservative tea partiers and reviled by […]

BAYONNE, France (AP) — Several hundred angry protesters have booed President Nicolas Sarkozy, forcing him to take refuge in a cafe protected by riot police as he campaigned in France’s southwest Basque country. Riot police surrounded the Bar du Palais where Sarkozy took refuge Thursday from the protesters who booed him throughout his visit to […]

ORLANDO, Fla. ( AP) — Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes. The interactive exhibit, Habit Heroes, featured animated fitness superheros Will Power and Callie Stenics and super-sized villains Snacker and Lead Bottom, who eat junk food and watch […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands ( AP) — The Dutch Royal House says Queen Beatrix’s second son, Johan Friso, has been flown from Austria to a hospital in London, nearly two weeks after a skiing accident left him with brain damage. Prince Friso was buried beneath snow for 25 minutes after being hit by an avalanche near […]