YouTube The scene at the university in Aleppo, Syria, after Tuesday’s twin blasts that killed more than 80 people. More than 80 people are dead after twin blasts at a university campus in Syria’s largest city. A U.K.-based Syrian opposition group told Al Jazeera that 83 people were killed and more than 150 were wounded […]
Enlarge image i An All Nippon Airways flight sits at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, Japan, after it made an emergency landing Wednesday. Yasufumi Nagao/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP An All Nippon Airways flight sits at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, Japan, after it made an emergency landing Wednesday. Yasufumi Nagao/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP It’s the latest in a series of problems
Enlarge image i Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey lies motionless after he was hit while attempting to catch a pass during a Sept. 23, 2012, game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Heyward-Bey suffered a concussion and neck strain and spent the night in the hospital under observation. Hector Amezcua/AP Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey
Enlarge image i U.S. military suicides rose in 2012. Here, the Army’s “Generating Health and Discipline in the Force” report, right, is seen last January. The reports was a follow-up to its “Health Promotion/Risk Reduction/Suicide Prevention” report. Alex Wong/Getty Images U.S. military suicides rose in 2012. Here, the Army’s “Generating Health and Discipline in the
Enlarge image i Rifles are displayed at a gun show in Marietta, Ga., on Dec. 22, 2012. A new poll shows overwhelming and bipartisan support for requiring criminal background checks before the sale of firearms at gun shows, as is already required before store sales. Mike Stewart/AP Rifles are displayed at a gun show in
Enlarge image i Shotguns sit on display at a gun show in Stamford, Conn., last week. Demand has risen for firearms as the White House prepares its new plan for gun control measures. New surveys find that a majority of Americans support some measures. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Shotguns sit on display at a gun
Enlarge image i A giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder shot. It’s the first-ever video of these giant squids, and it’ll debut in a Discovery Channel documentary airing in late January. Edie Widder/Discovery Channel A giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder
The head of the National Rifle Association said Sunday that there’s little appetite on Capitol Hill for a ban on assault weapons. “When a president takes all the power of his office, if he’s willing to expend political capital, you don’t want to make predictions, you don’t want to bet your house on the outcome.
France says its military operations in the African nation of Mali have stopped the advance of Islamist militants. “Stopping the terrorists, that’s done,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio on Sunday. Without France’s intervention, the Islamists would have advanced to Bamako, the Malian capital, he said. French warplanes on Sunday bombed the town of
Enlarge image i Thousands of food and clothing items are organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers in a school gymnasium in Rockaway Park, Queens, after Superstorm Sandy in November. Craig Ruttle/AP Thousands of food and clothing items are organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers in a school gymnasium in Rockaway Park, Queens, after Superstorm Sandy in November.
Men bathe in the evening in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti’s cholera outbreak in 2010 began about 60 miles upstream from here. John W. Poole/NPR Not quite 10 months after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, a more insidious disaster struck: cholera. Haiti hadn’t seen cholera for at least a century. Then suddenly,
The Baseball Hall of Fame is a tourist attraction, not a papal conclave. And the people who cast votes for the Hall are sportswriters, not the College of Cardinals. But there was something momentous this week when the Baseball Writers Association elected no one to the Hall of Fame. Not Roger Clemens, who won a