Special Section: 2009 Beaufort Water Festival
  • Only small crowds greet Obama during Ghana visit
    The lucky ones saw him waving from behind the bulletproof glass of his passing vehicle for a few fleeting seconds. The others, like the rest of the world, just watched President Barack Obama's visit on TV.
  • Foreign fighter may be among 16 killed in Somalia
    A foreign fighter and a top government security official are among 16 people killed in Saturday's fighting between U.N.-backed government forces and Islamist insurgents in the north of the capital, a Somali official said.
  • Mass funeral for Srebrenica massacre victims
    Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims prayed for the dead in Srebrenica on Saturday, the 14th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, and buried hundreds of victims recently recovered from mass graves.
  • Religious Jews stabbed in Jerusalem fight
    Two religious Jews were stabbed and another was beaten in a fight with secular Jews in Jerusalem on Saturday, a police spokesman said - an incident that could worsen tense relations between the city's observant and non-observant Jewish residents.
  • Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks
    A North Korean army lab of hackers was ordered to "destroy" South Korean communications networks - evidence the isolated regime was behind cyberattacks that paralyzed South Korean and American Web sites - news reports said Saturday, citing an intelligence briefing.
  • 5 hurt in latest Pamplona bull run
    A packed running of the bulls swollen by weekend crowds at Spain's San Fermin festival left five people with minor injuries Saturday, but there were no gorings the day after the first fatality for 14 years.
  • Scholar: NKorea interested in freeing US reporters
    North Korea appears "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their "hostile acts," a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday.
  • US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,323
    As of Friday, July 10, 2009, at least 4,323 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
  • No easy end in sight for Honduras coup crisis
    Delegates representing the ousted and interim governments of Honduras failed to forge an agreement during a second day of talks and no fixed date was set for future negotiations.
  • Mexico to arm Mormon community anti-crime force
    Authorities in northern Mexico will give arms and training to members of an anti-crime group in a Mormon community after two local residents were killed by hitmen with ties to organized crime, residents said Friday.
  • Woman China blames for violence wants dialogue
    The woman Chinese authorities blame for violent unrest in western China's Xinjiang (shihn-jahng) region is asking for outside intervention to create a dialogue between her ethnic Uighurs (WEE-gers) and Chinese authorities.
  • China raises death toll from ethnic riots to 184
    The Chinese government on Saturday raised the death toll from the communal rioting in western Xinjiang to 184 and issued the first ethnic breakdown of the dead, showing that most of those killed were from China's Han majority.
  • Schools, businesses close in Argentina for flu
    Millions of Argentines stayed home from work, churches in Bolivia canceled Mass and Ecuador announced its first fatalities from swine flu on Friday, as the virus continues its spread during the South American winter season.
  • Canadian tornado kills 2 US men
    Two Oklahoma men were killed and one remains missing after a tornado ripped through a tourist resort in northwestern Ontario, a meteorologist said Friday.
  • British tabloid denies it hacked celebrities
    The publisher of a British tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch denied on Friday a report that it had accessed the voice mail of celebrities and politicians and tried to suppress evidence of the hacking.