NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan yesterday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeastern United States where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to millions.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces were converging on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte yesterday, hoping to deliver the coup de grace of their revolution but uncertain if the fallen strongman was holed up there.
MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – Despite suffering one of the worst attacks on civilians in Mexico for years, the state of Nuevo Leon is undaunted because it believes a radical police overhaul will soon start winning the drug war.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces stormed a town on the main road leading to Turkey yesterday after troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought a night-time battle in Damascus with army defectors who had refused to shoot at a pro-democracy protest.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Sipping coconut water and honey, a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption reformer ended a hunger strike on its 13th day yesterday, a protest that had sparked huge rallies across the country, exposed a weak government and ushered in a new middle-class political force.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – R&B singer Beyonce let pictures tell the story of a baby on the way for her and rapper husband Jay-Z at the MTV Video Music Awards yesterday, appearing before photographers and outlining a baby bump under her long gown.
MOREHEAD CITY, NC (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene charged up the US East Coast yesterday towards New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans sought shelter from a huge storm that halted transport and caused massive power blackouts.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s new second-in-command was killed earlier this week in Pakistan, US officials said yesterday, in a major blow to the group still reeling from the death of Osama bin Laden.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Residents of Tripoli dug makeshift graves to bury the dead as evidence emerged of widespread summary killings during the battle for the Libyan capital.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan rebels claimed to be close to capturing Muammar Gaddafi yesterday as their NATO backers bombed diehard loyalists in his tribal bastion, but there was no sign of an end to the war, or to international wrangling over Libya’s riches.
WILMINGTON, N.C., (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene closed in on the U.S.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Constitutional Court yesterday ratified the extradition of former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States, where he faces money laundering charges.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – A car bomb ripped through the United Nations’ headquarters in the Nigerian capital of Abuja yesterday, killing at least 18 people, in an attack reminiscent of a June blast claimed by a local radical Islamist group.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A Chilean teenager died early yesterday a day after being shot following massive protests in the capital against President Sebastian Pinera, police said, the first fatality in months of social unrest.
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers hit a military barracks in Algeria yesterday, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the North African country in recent years.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rihanna may like to sing about sex and she may like to wear sexy costumes on stage, but the “S&M” singer says there is no videotape of her having sex with rapper J.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voicemail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids on Friday gave lawyers the names of the people he says ordered him to carry out the phone hacking.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers from his hiding place as NATO targeted his hometown and rebels announced a move to govern the country from Tripoli.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Thirteen people have been indicted in Miami in a crackdown on what U.S.
NASSAU, (Reuters) – The northeast U.S. seaboard, including the capital, Washington, and financial center New York, rushed to prepare yesterday for a possible mauling from powerful Hurricane Irene this weekend.
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