Hosam Smadi liked his American teachers, rarely visited the mosque, and came from prominent families that reject terrorism. Why was he talking about jihad on extremist websites?
Interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti dramatically dialed back his tough rhetoric on Monday, one day after issuing a draconian decree to curb civil liberties.
The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants and large industrial facilities.
The visit by the Iranian foreign minister, the first of its kind in a decade, came just before talks on Iran’s nuclear program were to begin in Geneva.
AP - A powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia trapped thousands of people under collapsed buildings — including hospitals, a hotel and a classroom, officials said. At least 200 bodies were found in one coastal city and the toll was expected to be far higher.
AP - Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-swept streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck of an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 120 in the South Pacific.
AP - Ken Lewis' legacy as CEO of Bank of America Corp. will likely be determined by whether his successor can do what Lewis couldn't: prove that the bank's messy acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. was worth the money.
A major earthquake in Indonesia today killed at least 75 people, according to a Red Cross disaster report, citing an official report from the country's vice president. Earlier, Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Ministry of Health's crisis center, said thousands may be trapped by collapsed buildings and houses.
The would-be assassin of Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism efforts, hid his bomb in his underwear, apparently believing that cultural taboos would prevent a search in that part of his body, according to a Saudi government official close to the investigation.
A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said. John Evander Couey, 51, died of natural causes, the Florida Department of Corrections said. "I never dreamed it would happen like this," Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, told CNN. "I'm relieved. I'm glad it's over with."