VIDEO: Wildfire threatens towns in Arizona

VIDEO: Wildfire threatens towns in Arizona

VIDEO: Wildfire threatens towns in Arizona

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:23 PM PDT

A huge wildfire in the US state of Arizona which has been burning for 11 days is now threatening two towns near the border with New Mexico, forcing thousands to evacuate.


In Yemen, a High-Stakes Power Game as Saleh Is in Limbo (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - With the president recuperating, or perhaps dying, in Saudi Arabia, tribal militias, military factions and street protests maneuver for advantage.


China says envoy from Libyan rebels to visit (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT

AP - China's Foreign Ministry says envoys from Libya's main opposition group will visit the country soon.


Official: India test-fires nuclear-capable missile (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:25 PM PDT

AP - A defense official says India has test-fired a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 220 miles (350 kilometers).


Utility workers strike as Greek Cabinet convenes (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:53 PM PDT

AP - Workers at state-run companies are walking off the job in a series of work stoppages to protest the government's privatization plan in Greece's renewed push to meet the terms of its international bailout.


Report: General confirms China's aircraft carrier (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:58 PM PDT

AP - A Chinese general has reportedly confirmed one of China's worst kept military secrets: It's readying its first aircraft carrier.


Nine dead in attack on Afghan wedding party (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:44 PM PDT

File photo of US soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. Nine people were killed and five others wounded when gunmen attacked a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan overnight, a provincial spokesman said Thursday.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - Nine people were killed and five others wounded when gunmen attacked a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan overnight, a provincial spokesman said Thursday.

VIDEO: Syrians flee town in fear of reprisals

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:29 PM PDT

In the north of the country hundreds of residents are pouring across the Turkish border, fearing the government is about to unleash a revenge attack on the town of Jisr al-Shughur.


E3 2011: Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg Enlists for 'Call of Duty' Battle

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:26 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES ? In what's becoming a perennial event, one of the biggest games of E3 is Activisi


Two Steps Closer to Home 3-D Printing

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:14 PM PDT

Two recent developments in 3-D printing point the way to a breakthrough in the use of 3-D printers b


Missed Opportunities in a Job Search

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:47 PM PDT

The thing about a missed opportunity in a job search is that you typically only figure out that it w


VIDEO: Syrians flee town in fear of reprisals

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:29 PM PDT

In the north of the country hundreds of residents are pouring across the Turkish border, fearing the government is about to unleash a revenge attack on the town of Jisr al-Shughur.


How Estonians became pioneering cyberdefenders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:12 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Ahead of spring elections, Agu Kivimägi was tasked with trying to ensure that online voting in Estonia wasn't vulnerable to attack. Its pioneering system of casting national ballots via the Internet would be a hacker's prize target.


Leaked document casts doubt on impartiality of Khmer Rouge judges (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:27 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As an international tribunal prepares to bring former Khmer Rouge leaders to trial beginning June 27, a confidential document obtained by The Christian Science Monitor raises questions about the UN-backed court’s ability to independently prosecute members of the brutal regime.


Afghan official: 9 killed in wedding party attack (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:44 PM PDT

A new female recruit of the Afghan National Police (ANP) aims her weapon during a training session in a police base south of Herat, western Afghanistan in this September 16, 2010 file photo. Women number up to 1,000 of Afghanistan's 126,000 police officers. Afghan officials and the West, who do most of their training, say female police fill much-needed gaps in a society where the two sexes must often be separated. To match feature AFGHANISTAN POLICE/WOMEN REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/Files (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)AP - The Afghan government says gunmen have killed nine people in a nighttime attack on a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan.

Fighters 'kill 12' in Pakistan tribal region

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:28 PM PDT

Local intelligence officials say raid targeted military checkpoint on the border between North and South Waziristan.


Western, Arab talks to focus on Libya "end-game" (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:28 PM PDT

Smoke rises after a grad rocket exploded near a rebel fighter position on the outskirts of Zlitan near Misrata's western front line, some 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) from the city centre June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - Western and Arab nations meet in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to focus on what one U.S. official called the "end-game" for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi as NATO once again stepped up the intensity of its air raids on Tripoli.

Teen survives being shot, dangled from bridge (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Mexican poet Javier Sicilia kisses the hand of a woman in the town of Camargo, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua after the arrival of the peace caravan June 8, 2011. Hundreds of Mexicans began a week-long procession through Mexico on Saturday to protest the country's bloody drug war, led by Sicilia, a crusading poet whose son was murdered by suspected cartel hitmen. Human rights activists and families of victims of violence formed a peace caravan and piled into 13 buses and more than two dozen cars to set out on a 12-state tour that will end in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent drug war city on the U.S. border. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)AP - A kicking, screaming teenager with a gunshot wound was found dangling from a rope over a busy highway Wednesday in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. Police said another man alongside him was dead by the time rescuers arrived and a third was found dead below.

Officials: Militants kill 8 troops in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:16 PM PDT

File photo of a Pakistani army checkpost near Wana, the mountain-fringed capital of South Waziristan. Eight soldiers and at least 10 Taliban were killed after the militants attacked a Pakistani security checkpost in the lawless tribal belt before dawn Thursday, local security officials said.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AP - Pakistani intelligence officials say Taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint in a tribal region along the Afghan border, sparking a clash that killed eight Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants.

Western, Arab talks to focus on Libya "end-game"

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:45 PM PDT

MISRATA (Reuters) - Western and Arab nations meet in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to focus on what one U.S. official called the "end-game" for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi as NATO once again stepped up the intensity of its air raids on Tripoli.
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