Three killed as army enters central Syrian town At least three civilians were killed on Monday when security forces entered the town of Talbiseh in central Syria to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad, a rights group said. 
Armenian ‘denial’ draft dropped prior to voting A bill which would criminalize the denial of allegations of a supposed 1915 'genocide' against Armenians was dropped by the French senate before it was taken to a vote. 
Assad speech offers little to protesters Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's promise on Monday to prepare a range of political reforms offers no prospect of appeasing the three-month-old uprising against his autocratic rule. 
Clinton urges Africa to drop Gaddafi Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged African leaders on Monday to abandon Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and embrace democratic reforms, before cutting short her Africa trip as a volcanic ash cloud closed in. 
Dozens killed in Syria violence At least 35 civilians and 10 soldiers and police have been killed since Saturday in a military operation in and around a northwestern Syrian town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. 
Taliban bin Laden revenge bombing kills 80 in... Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 80 people at a paramilitary force academy in the northwest on Friday, and vowed further bloodshed in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in the country. 
Tanks shell Syrian city Army tanks shelled a residential district in Homs on Wednesday, said a rights campaigner in Syria's third city which has emerged as the most populous center of defiance against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. 
Osama bin Laden killed in shootout Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Barack Obama announced, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks. 
Erdoğan pays a call to Obama Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan recently made a surprising telephone call to United States President Barack Obama to discuss the developments in Libya. 
Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life. 
Obama speaks with Turkey's Erdoğan on Syria President Barack Obama spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday about the situation in Syria, the White House said.
Angel of goodwill comes to Hatay U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is in Hatay to visit the camps when Syrian refugees are seeking shelter in Turkey.
Mexican police arrest drug boss "El Brad Pitt" Mexican federal police on Thursday announced the capture of a senior crime boss linked to the powerful Juarez drug cartel known as "El Brad Pitt." 
China raises flood alert to top level China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces. 
