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Pakistan’s largest city reels after 51 killed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani boy prays before attending a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Quran, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Pakistan’s largest city reeled Wednesday after gunmen opened fire in a commercial market, killing 11 people in the latest spasm of violence to underscore the poor state of…

Pakistan’s Karachi city reels after 51 killed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Pakistani boy prays before attending a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Quran, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A government official says gunmen opened fire in a commercial market in Pakistan’s largest city, killing 11 people.


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Haiti official: 12 killed in floods, landslides (AP)

October 18th, 2010

AP - Steady rains toppled hillsides and turned streets into rivers in the Haitian capital over the weekend, leaving at least 12 people dead and three missing, civil protection officials…

Violence erupts at Haiti prison, 3 inmates killed (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Two inmates were shot to death trying to escape from the roof of Haiti’s quake-damaged national penitentiary and a third was trampled to death inside during a prison…

Mexican marine, 3 gunmen killed in shootout (AP)

October 15th, 2010

Forensic officers walk toward the crime scene after a shootout between unknown gunmen and soldiers on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, late Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. According to the local media, at least five gunmen and a soldier were killed during the shootout. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - Mexican marines battled suspected drug cartel gunmen whose allies erected at least a dozen roadblocks in the northeastern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. One marine and three…

US military says 77,000 Iraqis killed over 5 years (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Baghdad, September 2010. Six people have been killed in separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - In its most extensive death tally of the Iraq war, the U.S. military says nearly 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security officials were killed from early 2004 to mid-2008…

NATO: 3 more troops killed in Afghan bomb blast (AP)

October 14th, 2010

In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010,  US Army soldiers from Scout Platoon 502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, carry supplies from a helicopter in Zhari district, Kandahar province.  The Scouts' mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A bomb blast killed three NATO troops in western Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the…

18 Guard members killed in Iran base blast Tuesday (AP)

October 13th, 2010

AP - An explosion set off by a fire that had spread to an ammunition depot at a military base in western Iran killed 18 members of the country’s powerful…

Ukraine: 37 killed in bus, train collision (AP)

October 12th, 2010

AP - A crowded passenger bus collided with a train in eastern Ukraine Tuesday, killing 37 people and injuring 12, police said.

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NATO: 2 killed, 10 wounded in helicopter explosion (AP)

October 12th, 2010

US soldier Sergeant Bill Myers, from Phoenix, Arizona, from Bravo Company 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, prepares to patrol after a break near Forward Operation Base Howz-e-Madad, Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - NATO says two people have been killed and 10 others injured in an explosion aboard a coalition helicopter just after it landed in eastern Afghanistan.


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