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DPRK executes official for reform gone away
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) executed a former senior official last week as punishment for the country's botched currency reform, a news report said Thursday.
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Army, drug gangs battle in Mexico amid blockades
A shootout in the northern city of Monterrey killed two suspected drug cartel gunmen and wounded a soldier Friday. Suspected gang members also blocked roads in the city for the second day, in a bold attempt to impede security patrols.
12 wounded in Israeli missile strike in Gaza
Hamas officials say Israeli aircraft have fired five missiles at Gaza's defunct airport and nearby border tunnels, wounding at least 12 people.
Medvedev: Sanctions against Iran possible
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had not excluded the possibility of imposing reasonable sanctions on Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
US vital in pan-Asian institutions
Clinton expects new START deal to be signed soon
Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI
Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: experts
Israel strikes in Gaza after deadly rocket
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
US imposes sanctions on two Hamas entities
Eight people killed in avalanche in Tajikistan
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Asia-Pacific
Japanese fish dealers welcome tuna ban rejection
Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna - a prized ingredient of sushi - while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing.
F-35 fighter succeeds in 1st vertical landing test
US weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin said Thursday the company's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter succeeded in vertical landing test for the first time earlier in the day, a rare piece of good news for the problem prone program.
Science and Health
Acupuncture can spread serious diseases: experts
Bacterial infections, hepatitis B and C, and possibly even HIV are being transmitted via acupuncture through the use of contaminated needles, cotton swabs and hot packs, experts warned on Friday.
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
NewsmakerKids who helped deliver baby describe ordeal
When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn brother.
Author assumes guise of 10-year-old to punk famous
Secretaries of state, touched by the 10-year-old's handwritten letters on grade-school notepaper, wrote back advising him how to settle a treehouse dispute with his sister. O.J. Simpson's lawyer told him how to get off the hook on accusations he destroyed a doll. A publisher of racy magazines, asked whether there was a version for kids, told him to read the Sears catalog instead, and "you'll be 18 before you know it."
Oldest person in US dies in NH at age 114
Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.
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Global General
Kids who helped deliver baby describe ordeal
When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn brother.
Israel strikes in Gaza after deadly rocket
Israeli aircraft struck at least six targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said.
Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered
The deal looked simple enough: US military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister's salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard.
Taliban: Kandahar bombings a 'warning' to NATO
The Taliban have called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents are ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland.
Russia starts regional elections
Some 32 million Russians, or one third of the total voters, went to the polls in Sunday's regional and local elections.
Global BizBritish Airways cabin crews to go on strike
The union representing British Airways cabin crews decided Friday to go on a seven-day, two-phase strike in late March.
HSBC: data on 24,000 Swiss account holders stolen
Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.
Odd NewsUS man executed by electrocution
A Virginia man has been executed for killing a teen girl and then bragging about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.
A lion cub finds a dog mother
The newborn cub, which is the only survivor after its mother and her three cubs died during the delivery, was taken by zoo employees to a mongrel dog to feed.
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