Rocket-propelled grenades injured more than 80 government supporters at Thai protests Thursday evening. The antigovernment Red Shirts denied responsibility for the attack, though the M-79 grenades were reportedly fired from near their camp.
The Muslim-American community overwhelmingly condemns any threat of violence over the depiction of Mohammed in 'South Park' episode 201. But the frustrations are real.
The new weapons system is designed to hurl a conventional warhead of enormous weight at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy, without crossing the nuclear threshold.
AP - As the Coast Guard searched for 11 crew members missing after a drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities turned their focus to controlling an oil spill that could threaten the fragile ecosystem of the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.
AP - Iraqi officials say a car bomb has targeted the main Baghdad office of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed more than 30 people.
AP - The European Union speeded up a sweeping reform of its air control management system Friday, responding to the crisis that turned much of the continent into a no-fly zone after a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
A huge sheen of crude oil is spreading across the Gulf of Mexico after an oil rig exploded and sank, the Coast Guard says. Eleven rig workers still are missing.
Iceland will close two airports on Friday for the first time, a week after ash from an Icelandic volcano forced the shutdown of airspace over much of Europe and stranded thousands of passengers around the world, the Icelandic aviation authority announced Thursday.