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  1. Protests greet Turkish president in Armenia AP - Sat Sep 6, 5:17 PM ET Avg. Rating: 5.0

    YEREVAN, Armenia - Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide.

  2. Mexican soldiers guarding a cocaine seizure allegedly belonging to fugitive Mexican drug-trafficker Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman-- after the airplane "Gulfstream II" from Colombia crashed in Merida jungle in Yucatan State, southern Mexico, in 2007.(AFP/File/Hector Osnaya)
    Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights: report AFP - Thu Sep 4, 4:40 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

  3. U.S. Maj. Gen. Jeffery J. Schloesser, right, shakes hand with Afghan soldiers after arriving at a US base in Nuristan province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. U.S. forces in Afghanistan will increase offensive operations against militants this winter because insurgents are increasingly staying in the country to prepare for spring attacks, the top U.S. commander said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
    General: US forces to up Afghan winter offensives AP - Wed Sep 3, 2:12 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALAGUSH, Afghanistan - American troops in Afghanistan will step up offensive operations this winter because insurgents are increasingly staying in the country to prepare for spring attacks, a U.S. commander told The Associated Press.

  4. US Major General John Kelly (left) and Anbar province governor Mamoon Sami Rashid sign documents during a handover ceremony in the provincial capital of Ramadi on September 1. Iraqi forces took over control of the Sunni Anbar province from the US military on September 1.(AFP/Wathiq Khuzaie)
    Iraq's anti-Qaeda fighters fear for their future AFP - Sat Sep 6, 5:54 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Sunni Arab fighters battling Al-Qaeda in Iraq say their future is bleak as the Shiite government prepares to take over responsibility for them from the Americans and they also face jihadist fury.

  5. Security personnel remove an unidentified woman who entered the pitch during the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games at the National Stadium in the Chinese capital, September 6. Britain took an early lead in the Paralympics medal table as Olympian Natalie du Toit starred and Chinese officials played down the embarrassing security breach at the glittering opening ceremony.(AFP/Liu Jin)
    China shrugs off glitch as Britain, Du Toit star at Paralympics AFP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    BEIJING (AFP) - Britain took an early lead in the Paralympics medal table on Sunday as Olympian Natalie du Toit starred and Chinese officials played down an embarrassing security breach at the glittering opening ceremony.

  6. An aerial view of a flooded Gonaives, Haiti after the passing of Tropical Storm Hanna. In Haiti a humanitarian crisis was unfolding as flooding from Hanna left more than 500 people dead and thousands in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)
    Hurricane Ike ravages Caribbean islands as Hanna hits US AFP - Sun Sep 7, 3:50 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Ike lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands early Sunday and threatened to unleash its fury on the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast.

  7. A Syrian dancer from Seif al-Islam group or (Sword of Islam) performs during Ramadan festival at the historical castle of Sidon, south of Lebanon, early Sunday Sept. 7, 2008. Some people go out early morning to restaurant or coffee shops to enjoy their breaking fast. During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, observant Muslims fast from dawn untill the sunset. (AP Photo / Mohammed Zaatari)
    UN peacekeeper killed by blast in south Lebanon AP - Wed Sep 3, 1:26 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - A United Nations peacekeeper in south Lebanon was killed by an explosion Wednesday while clearing unexploded ordnance, a U.N. official said.

  8. In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)
    Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm AP - 1 minute ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.

  9. Official: Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:09 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members has been hijacked by pirates off Somalia's coast, the 10th vessel to be seized in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.

  10. U.S. trained attorney Cristal Gonzalez speaks to lawyers, police investigators and forensic experts during a class on the new rules of justice in Mexico City, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Under the constitutional amendment passed by the legislature, approved by country's 32 states and signed by President Felipe Calderon, Mexico has eight years to replace its closed proceedings with public oral trials in which suspects are presumed innocent, legal authorities can be held more accountable and equal justice is promised to all. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico undergoes legal revolution AP - Sat Sep 6, 9:41 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

  11. People rest beside a sculpture displayed to commemorate the date of the May 12 earthquake at the Xiaoyudong Bridge Site in Pengzhou of southwest China's Sichuan province Wednesday, Sep. 3, 2008. The site of the quake-damaged Xiaoyudong bridge is planned to be the center of the Longmenshan earthquake site park in Pengzhou. Over 80,000 people died in the May 12 earthquake which hit southwest China. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
    China says flaws may have led to school collapses AP - Thu Sep 4, 2:52 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BEIJING - Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws causing so many of them to collapse.

  12. RNC: Media Intimidation Condemned OneWorld.net - Thu Sep 4, 6:25 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    MINNEAPOLIS, Sep 4 (OneWorld) - Police and local and federal officials in St. Paul, Minnesota are under fire from independent media groups for their crackdown on reporters at this week's Republican National Convention.

  13. A man walks through flood waters as he pulls a wheelbarrow loaded with a coffin containing the body of a man who died from hypertension triggered during flooding after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Hanna has killed 166 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island AP - Sun Sep 7, 4:25 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation.

  14. Nuclear nations approve disputed India trade waiver Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 1:12 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Forty-five nations approved a U.S. proposal on Saturday to lift a global ban on nuclear trade with India in a breakthrough towards sealing a controversial U.S.-Indian atomic energy deal.

  15. A wounded Iraqi policeman recovers at al-Kindi hospital, after a roadside bomb attack on his patrol in east Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The attack wounded three police and two civilians, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
    Britain must disclose Iraq intelligence memos AP - Thu Sep 4, 1:53 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    LONDON - Britain's Information Commissioner ruled Thursday that the government must publish memos and e-mails related to a 2002 intelligence dossier on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

  16. Local residents look out over the scene, the day after a rock slide from the towering Muqattam cliffs fell onto the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. At least 31 were killed and countless more are believed still buried in the rubble. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
    Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31, others buried AP - 19 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian police on Sunday moved shanty town residents from the site of a rock slide that killed at least 31 and left countless more buried, after concerns that more rocks could tumble from the unstable cliffs overhead.

  17. Iranian women attend a prayer ceremony in Tehran on Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
    Iran bill to ease polygamy angers women AP - Thu Sep 4, 2:22 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    TEHRAN, Iran - A bill that would allow Iranian men to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has angered women and the country's top justice official, who say it would undermine women's rights and could be a government attempt to more deeply enshrine its strict Islamic interpretation into law.

  18. Hurricane Ike near Turks and Caicos; Cuba braces AP - Sat Sep 6, 11:04 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the large eye of an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is lurking "near or over" the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.

  19. Pop star's slaying turns sordid political drama AP - Fri Sep 5, 3:24 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CAIRO, Egypt - It's the Mideast version of a sordid soap opera. A Lebanese pop star is brutally murdered in her luxury Dubai apartment, her throat slashed. Arrested in her death: One of Egypt's most politically connected businessmen, accused of paying $2 million to have her killed.

  20. A worker is seen near a vehicle damaged in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Ayad Kadhim Sabti, An official in ex-deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi's office, said six people were killed in the suicide car bomb attack on Chalabi's convoy in western Baghdad, but Chalabi escaped Friday night's attack without injuries.(AP Photo)
    Official: 6 killed in Iraq bomb; Chalabi uninjured AP - Sat Sep 6, 6:59 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BAGHDAD - Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi, escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy in Baghdad, an official in his office said Saturday.

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