Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow´s Red Square in the Victory Day parade Friday, the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that they have appeared in the annual event.
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital´s Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday in the country´s worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.
Canadian authorities have a train in northern Ontario under quarantine after one person died and several others came down with an undetermined illness.
Myanmar´s military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they´re not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.
Police fortified their headquarters Friday in fear of another attack after Islamist fighters raided the station in the heart of the government´s Mogadishu stronghold.
A rancher fighting allegations he ordered the killing of an American nun says he actually admired the slain activist and accused authorities of trying to frame him.
