17 dead in Mexico jail shooting

17 dead in Mexico jail shooting


17 dead in Mexico jail shooting

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Officials in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez say 17 prisoners have been killed in a shoot-out between members of rival drug gangs.


Boehner Plan Faces G.O.P. Resistance and Veto Threat

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:05 PM PDT

House Republican leaders made frenzied pleas to their members to approve a plan to temporarily raise the debt ceiling, but passage seemed in growing doubt, and the White House strongly opposes the bill.


U.S. attack still significant al Qaeda goal: official

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:04 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Striking the United States remains a "significant goal" for al Qaeda and its affiliates nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, the president's nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center said on Tuesday.


Crash Raises Questions on China’s Rush to Build High-Speed Rail

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:20 PM PDT

The inconsistent accounts of how last week's accident happened add to a public skepticism about the government's administration of railroads.


At War: Reading the Refuse: Counting Col. Qaddafi's Heat-Seeking Missiles, and Tracking Them Back to their Sources

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT

Just how many antiaircraft missiles did the Qaddafi government have before they were carted off by rebels and spread around the battlefield?


Lockerbie bomber seen on TV rally

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:43 PM PDT

The man convicted of blowing up a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 has appeared at a rally broadcast by Libyan state television.


City Room: Art Dealer Charged With Smuggling Ivory Into U.S.

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Victor Gordon was arraigned on smuggling charges in federal court in Brooklyn after, the authorities said, they seized about a ton of carved ivory that he had had a confederate bring into the country in his luggage.


Restaurant Review: Palm and Palm Too

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:36 PM PDT

The food is first-rate at this 85-year-old steakhouse and its annex, at least if you stick to the original script of salad and tangy, prime-rated beef or huge, perfectly acceptable lobster.


China dives deeper in resource race

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Submersible conducts country's deepest manned dive that points to its fast-growing technical capabilities.


'Teen sex' congressman to resign

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT

A US Democratic congressman resigns amid allegations he had an unwanted sexual encounter with the 18-year-old daughter of a campaign donor.


Global fears grow as US deadlock deepens

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Congress remained deeply divided as politicians grappled for a debt deal amid warnings of dangers to the world at large.


Prescriptions: McDonald's Alters Happy Meals, Shrinks Fries

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:27 AM PDT

McDonald's acknowledges that consumer and parental pressures forced it to lower the amount of fries in children's meals, and add fruit.


Reluctant Labor Party lawyer agrees to defend Norway killer

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:21 PM PDT

OSLO (Reuters) - After massacring at least 76 people, most of them young members of the Norwegian Labor Party, right-wing zealot Anders Behring Breivik had a request: to be defended by Oslo lawyer Geir Lippestad.


Hillsborough files 'must be seen'

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:31 AM PDT

The Information Commissioner rules that cabinet minutes relating to the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium tragedy must be released.


Prison fight leaves 17 dead in Mexican border city

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:14 PM PDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - Seventeen people have been killed in a prison gunfight in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, authorities said Tuesday.


Two German men on terror charges

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Two men arrested at the port of Dover are charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.


VIDEO: Norway victims 'screamed with fear'

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:47 AM PDT

The BBC's Gavin Hewitt talks to residents of Utoeya island who helped rescue traumatised teenagers after Anders Breivik opened fire on Friday.


China dives deeper in resource race

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Submersible conducts country's deepest manned dive that points to its fast-growing technical capabilities.


Ignore pressure - Mullany judge

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:39 PM PDT

A judge tells a jury to ignore public pressure when reaching verdicts on two men accused of murdering a couple on their Caribbean honeymoon.


Norwegians grieve, look to future after massacre

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:41 AM PDT

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegians decorated the streets of their capital with flowers Tuesday in a show of national unity as they began to overcome the shock caused by the mass slaughter of young people by a home-grown extremist.


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