NEW YORK – For years, authorities wondered about the identity of a U.S. Marine who appeared at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, helped find a pair of police officers buried in the rubble, then vanished. Even the producers of the new film chronicling the rescue, “World Trade …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Mostly Muslim Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei are ready to contribute troops to Lebanon as part of a U.N.-mandated peacekeeping force, the three countries’ military chiefs said Thursday. “See how serious we are in preparing ourselves,” Indonesian military chief Air Marshall Djoko Suyanto said at a joint media …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With Tropical Storm Ernesto breathing down their necks, NASA managers gave up on a Tuesday space shuttle launch and prepared to move Atlantis indoors. The National Hurricane Center’s late Monday morning forecast put Ernesto’s track on or just slight east of Kennedy Space Center late Wednesday …
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To honor the year anniversary of Katrina, Inc.com checked in with local businesses representing a cross section of industries: a lumberyard, a health clinic, a furniture manufacturer and an art gallery. These are their stories of survival. Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic was hit by a tidal surge during …
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WEIMAR, Germany – The oldest known manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach — handwritten copies of works by two other composers — have been discovered in a library that was heavily damaged in a fire two years ago, researchers said Thursday. The two manuscripts date from around 1700 and contain copies …
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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. The draft, adopted unanimously, is the first …
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STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that eight years of solitary confinement for Carlos the Jackal did not violate the jailed terrorist’s rights or amount to inhumane treatment. The court’s Grand Chamber upheld a lower chamber’s January 2005 ruling that the lengthy solitary confinement in …
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I’m used to quite a bit of whining. I’m a mom, so you know what I mean. You fix chicken for dinner and the kids complain that it’s chicken for the sixth time in a row — even though we had hamburgers last night. They don’t like the seasoning, etc. …
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JERUSALEM – Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Cabinet on Sunday that the army’s current offensive is not an invasion of Lebanon, but rather a series of limited raids into the area. Peretz also said that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the …
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Federal prosecutors accused a former U.S. soldier Monday of raping and murdering a young Iraqi woman and gunning down her family, all of whose bodies were found burned in an apparent cover-up. Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former Army private first class who was recently discharged because …
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