Photos already offer clues to the cause of the Afriqiyah Airways Libyan plane crash Wednesday, says an aviation safety expert. And some are asking, why is a 10-year-old Dutch boy the sole survivor?
A United Nations-backed crime investigation team, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, roots out corrupt police and politicians in what could be a model for the region.
A new iPhone app just released by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History shows what you would look like if you were a Neanderthal with an iPhone.
In their first news conference as a governing team, David Cameron and Nick Clegg laid out plans to hold their fragile coalition together amid challenges.
AP - Republicans choose Tampa as the site of their 2012 presidential convention, hoping the swing state of Florida will help them defeat President Barack Obama.
AP - A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline's brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.
AP - The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track.
A Dutch child is believed to be the only survivor of a plane crash at Tripoli airport in Libya this morning that killed 103 people. "All of the passengers and crew died except for one child," a Libyan security source told Reuters at Tripoli airport. Libya's Transport Minister Mohamed Zidan said the 10-year-old child, who holds a Dutch passport, was in hospital. The plane was full of Dutch tourists as it was being used by two Dutch tour operators, according to the Dutch Foreign Ministry.
He is the youngest British prime minister in 200 years -- and the first to head a coalition government in seven decades. After five days of talks, David Cameron's Conservatives have formed a government with the Liberal Democrats. But will it last?
Seven students and one teacher died after a knife attack at a kindergarten in Shaanxi Province, Northwest China, that left 12 others injured, the latest in a series of violent attacks on schools in China.
A man with a meat cleaver hacked to death a kindergarten teacher and seven students in northwestern China, state media report. China has had a spate of similar attacks.
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