Dozens killed, missing in Guatemala landslides
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 3:20 pm

Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.

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Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 38
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 3:13 pm

A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said.

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Mideast crisis looms over Israeli settlements
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:56 pm

Just days after Mideast peace talks began, a crisis looms: Israel hinted it will ease restrictions on West Bank building, while the Palestinian president warned he'll quit the talks if Israel resumes construction.

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Lawyer: JetBlue attendant resigned
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:28 pm
A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer says. 
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Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 2:20 pm
Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo's vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by heavily loaded boats operated with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.
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In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 1:54 pm
The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days.
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Mideast crisis looms over Israeli settlements
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 1:38 pm

Just days after Mideast peace talks began in Washington, the first major crisis is already looming: Israel hinted Sunday it will ease restrictions on building in West Bank settlements, while the Palestinian president warned he'll quit the talks if Israel resumes construction.

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Venus battles into U.S. Open quarterfinals
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 1:31 pm

Venus Williams got through a tougher-than-expected test against Israel's Shahar Peer to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the 10th time.

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Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 12:31 pm

Army bomb testers based at Fort Campbell, Ky., are undergoing hundreds of hours of cognitive tests as part of the military's first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury.

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Mosque debate reveals ground zero emotions
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 12:13 pm

Depending on whom you talk to, it's a scar on this city where horror still lingers, a bustling hive symbolizing the resilience of a nation, or simply, for those who live and work nearby, a place where life goes on.

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Racial violence changes student — and school
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 11:53 am

Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.

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Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 11:16 am

Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions.

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Has college sendoff always been so tough?
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 11:14 am

For many parents, letting go when a child leaves for college is difficult — more so, many say, than it was for in decades past.

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Basque separatists ETA announce cease fire
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 11:06 am

The Basque regional government says a cease-fire announcement by the separatist group ETA is "absolutely insufficient" because the group has not renounced violence or announced its dissolution.

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Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 10:43 am

The disaster that will likely keep the miners underground for months also has shaken the fault lines in their families above. Some squabble over who should get the miners' August wage.

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Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 8:34 am

John Boehner has left little doubt that the president and other Democrats will face fierce resistance in the House if he is speaker, starting with a push to dismantle Obama's hard-fought health care law.

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12 die in Baghdad car bomb, gunfight
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 8:15 am
Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.
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Vatican says stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
Posted on 5 September 2010 | 8:02 am

The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to spare the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

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Race complicates reservation crime fight
Posted on 4 September 2010 | 10:47 pm

For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head.

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NYT: Democrats plan triage to retain House
Posted on 4 September 2010 | 10:46 pm
NYT: As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members.
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For Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other
Posted on 4 September 2010 | 4:21 pm

American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States.

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