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Cruise ship captain under fire for leaving before passengers

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


GIGLIO, Italy -- Maritime authorities, passengers and mounting evidence pointed Sunday toward the captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast, amid accusations that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacu ...

UN chief tells Syria's president to stop the killing

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:18 PM PST


BEIRUT -- The U.N. chief demanded Sunday that Syria's president stop killing his own people and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East on a day when activists said 27 people died.
Secretary-General Ban ...

Russian space probe crashes into the Pacific Ocean

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:18 PM PST


MOSCOW -- A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.
Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, w ...

Archaeologists stumble on rare Egyptian tomb

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


CAIRO -- In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings, an antiquities official said Sunday.
It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient E ...

Democracy shift grows more complex for Egypt

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST

CAIRO -- Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei's surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt's transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power.In less than two weeks on ...

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