Thailand leader says floods may last 6 more weeks

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand’s catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, the prime minister said Saturday, as residents living in Bangkok’s outskirts sloshed through waist-high waters in some areas and the human toll from the crisis nationwide rose to 356 dead and more than 110,000 displac

Oct. 23, 2011

Gadhafi's death energizes Syrian, Yemeni protests

Yemen`s government supporters shout slogans during a funeral for 11 government soldiers and supporters who died in the clashes with rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 21, 2011. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)BEIRUT (AP) _ Energized by the killing of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, thousands of protesters in Syria and Yemen

Oct. 22, 2011

Libya faces challenges ahead

Gadhafi gone, but revolutionaries struggle among themselvesWASHINGTON (AP) ― Libya’s victorious revolutionaries now face a new threat: Themselves.The secular and religious, the politicians and the militants basked Thursday in the demise of a dictator, as fighters killed Moammar Gadhafi and eradicate

Oct. 21, 2011

Libyans won revolution, opportunity ahead: Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama on Thursday cast the demise of Moammar Gadhafi as a momentous opportunity for Libya and its long-suffering people. “You have won your revolution,” he told them.“One of the world’s longest-serving dictators is no more,” Obama said as news of Gadhafi’s death an

Oct. 21, 2011

Pulled from drainage pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

Libyan people celebrate the death of fallen Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli on Thursday. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)SIRTE, Libya (AP) ― Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: “Don’t kill me, my sons.” Within an hour, he

Oct. 21, 2011

With warped vision, Gadhafi maddened Libya, West

People wave pre-Gadhafi flags as they gather to celebrate the death of deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. Moammar Gadhafi, Libya`s dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his

Oct. 21, 2011

Gadhafi, Libya's leader for 42 years, killed as his hometown falls

SIRTE, Libya (AP) -- Moammar Gadhafi, who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years until he was ousted by his own people in an uprising that turned into a bloody civil war, was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two

Oct. 21, 2011

Hype builds around North Korea’s look-alike hotel

The butt of countless jokes, the North Korean capital Pyongyang’s Ryukyong Hotel was the monolithic structure dominating the city’s skyline that seemed to be a veritable “white elephant.”Work started on the 105-story, pyramid-shaped building in 1987 with hopes of being opened just two years later. B

Oct. 20, 2011

French first lady gives birth to girl: report

PARIS (AP) ― French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday night ― the first infant born to a sitting president of modern-day France, the French media reported.President Nicolas Sarkozy, finishing up a meeting in Frankfurt on the euro debt crisis, was absent when the c

Oct. 20, 2011

Turkey launches incursion into Iraqi territory

Ankara begins ‘hot pursuit’ operation  after Kurdish rebels kill 24 soldiersANKARA (AP) ― Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships have launched an incursion into northern Iraq, hours after Kurdish rebels killed 24 soldiers and wounded 18 in attacks along the border.Prime Min

Oct. 20, 2011

America unsettled on Obama challenger

U.S. president suffers from faltering support, but opposing Republicans present feeble challengeWASHINGTON (AP) ― Half of all Americans believe President Barack Obama does not deserve to be re-elected, but none of the Republicans vying to challenge him in 2012 has been able to beat him in a hypothet

Oct. 20, 2011

Jon Bon Jovi's charity restaurant opens in US

RED BANK, New Jersey (AP) _ In three decades as one of the world's biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world's best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer.Yet there's no place he'd rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a ``pay-what-you-can'' restaurant

Oct. 20, 2011

4th arrest made in Philadelphia basement case

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fourth person was arrested Wednesday in a scheme in which authorities said mentally disabled adults were locked up in a fetid basement while their captors cashed their Social Security checks. The latest suspect was the daughter of the alleged ringleader, officials said.Th

Oct. 20, 2011

Reports: French first lady gives birth to girl

PARIS (AP) — French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday night — the first infant born to a sitting president of modern-day France, the French media reported.President Nicolas Sarkozy, finishing up a meeting in Frankfurt on the euro debt crisis, was absen

Oct. 20, 2011