World May 13 Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Suicide Bombing Killing at Least 80 A Pakistani soldier guards the site of a suicide bombing at a military training center in Shabqadar. Photo by A. Majeed/AFP/Getty Images. Two suicide bomb attacks at a paramilitary academy in northwest Pakistan have claimed at least 80 lives…
Nation May 12 Jim Lehrer's Changing Role: Leave Your Reflections, Favorite Moments Jim Lehrer announced Thursday that he is taking another step toward ending his 36 years of anchoring or co-anchoring our daily public television news broadcast. Beginning June 6, he will no longer be part of the regular daily anchor…
World May 12 NATO Strikes Gadhafi Compound, Demjanjuk Found Guilty of Nazi War Crimes A picture taken in Gaza city on May 11, 2011 shows Moammar Gadhafi appearing on Libyan state television. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images) NATO air strikes targeted one of Moammar Gadhafi's compounds in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Thursday, following attacks…
World May 11 Reports of Shelling in Syria Crackdown, Rising Mississippi River Flows South Witnesses said the Syrian army is stepping up its crackdown in restive cities, shelling residential areas in Homs, the country's third-largest city and home to some of the biggest anti-government demonstrations. Security forces are reportedly using live ammunition and…
World May 10 Mississippi Flooding Hits Memphis, Heads Toward Weary New Orleans 5:30 p.m. ET | Floodwaters hit the Mississippi Delta Tuesday afternoon, threatening farmland, historic sites and residential areas alike. The crest is expected to wash over the area and bring a deluge lasting several days, compounding the damage already caused…
Economy May 10 Microsoft to Buy Skype for $8.5 Billion, NATO Launches Strikes on Tripoli Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft said Tuesday that it plans to purchase Skype, the Internet phone and video communication services with a reach of 663 million customers, for $8.5 billion in cash, with the intent of expanding its…
World May 07 Videos Seized from bin Laden's Compound Released // The Pentagon on Saturday released five videos recovered from Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, revealing the first glimpses of the al-Qaida leader's life behind the compound walls. One video shows a grey-bearded bin Laden wrapped in…
World May 05 Ivory Coast Top Court Calls Ouattara President After Months of Resistance Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) The highest court in Ivory Coast reversed course Thursday and proclaimed Alassane Ouattara president after five months of fighting in the West African nation and a deepening humanitarian crisis. Ouattara was elected…
Nation May 05 Obama in NYC: 'When We Say "We Will Never Forget," We Mean What We Say' Marking the death of Osama bin Laden at the site of the terrorist's biggest attack, President Obama placed a wreath Thursday at Ground Zero in New York. He said that bin Laden's killing on Sunday "sent a message around…
Politics May 04 A historical timeline of Afghanistan The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions.