At least 11 protesters were killed by security forces during massive demonstrations on Friday across Syria, witnesses and activists told AFP in telephone interviews.
Women candidates fared so well in Tuesday's primaries that the Associated Press declared 2010 to be the "year of the political woman," but for some, the ascendancy of anti-feminist Republican women looks more like bad news than good.
Sarah Palin's popularity among conservatives may be strong, but even some of them seem to think she ought to learn a little bit more. That includes Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly.
Colleagues of ten American Baptist missionaries arrested for child trafficking in Haiti say it's all a big misunderstanding, but the Haitian government isn't mincing words on the issue.