Osama bin Laden, the face of terror, killed in Pakistan
The most prominent face of terror in America and beyond, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, U.S. officials said Sunday night. Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. U.S. officials said that their forces…
At 80, the Empire State Building strikes back
It is so obvious, so cliché and so visible that visiting the Empire State Building gets, ironically, overlooked. Like the single slice meal, blue Yankee cap and yellow cab, the skyscraper is in the city’s DNA, so familiar you feel as if you have been there even if you have…
NATO strike misses Gadhafi but kills a son
One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Arab Gadhafi — was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya’s government said Sunday at a press conference. Moammar Gadhafi and his wife were in their son’s house when it was targeted, spokesman Musa Ibrahim said. Both of them…
Syrian army attacks mosque, killing 4
Syrian army troops backed by tanks and three helicopters on Saturday took a prominent mosque that had been controlled by residents in a besieged southern city killing four people, a witness said. The operation in the town of Daraa came a day after President Bashar Assad unleashed deadly force to…
Leinster 32-23 Toulouse
Leinster (16) 32Tries: Heaslip, O’DriscollCons: Sexton 2Pens: Sexton 6 Toulouse (13) 23Tries: Fritz, PicamolesCons: Skrela 2Pens: Skrela, BezyDrop goal: Skrela Leinster clinched their place in the Heineken Cup final with a hard-fought win over Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium. The Irish province led 16-13 at half-time thanks to a…
Best Selling Family Cars for 2011
best-selling family car in America? With automakers reporting March sales and an unexpected first place for the mid-size Nissan Altima as the best-selling sedan in America for the first time, the mid-size Toyota Camry still takes the top spot in first-quarter 2011 sales in the U.S. Toyota snags three of…