Israel continued to launch airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza on Tuesday, one day after Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Parliament that Israel is engaged in an ?all-out war with Hamas.?
AP - Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating that Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel's punishing air offensive in Gaza.
AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
AP - The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said Monday that they suspect the woman "chose an unfortunate ending to her life" and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico's coast on Christmas night.
Israel bombed a Hamas government compound early Tuesday, leveling at least three structures, including the foreign ministry building, eyewitnesses and Hamas security sources told CNN.
Days of Israeli attacks on suspected Hamas strongholds in Gaza have triggered protests in more than a dozen countries. In London, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy, waving flags and trying to push their way closer to the building, as police tried to hold them back and erect a barricade.
The bodies of six of eight missing snowmobilers have been found, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. Constable Louis Saule said the search for the remaining two snowmobilers would continue near Fernie, British Columbia. An avalanche buried part of the group on Sunday, and a second buried the rest as they tried to assist.