At least five people were killed Sunday in Somalia during a march that drew thousands in support of peacekeepers. Thousands had marched through Kismayo, Somalia, 260 miles southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, to support a proposed peacekeeping mission for the country. An explosion went off as the army chief prepared to address the rally and government troops fired into the crowd in response.
Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialist government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church. The center-left Socialist government wants to grant women the right to opt for abortion during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Barack Obama said Sunday that name recognition would be his toughest challenge in his 2008 presidential campaign. His leading rivals for the Democratic nomination are far better known to voters, the Illinois senator said in an Associated Press interview the day after announcing his candidacy.
At least 30 people were killed and 50 were wounded when a suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty Sunday near Tikrit, police said. Minutes later, a roadside bomb struck a car on a highway on the western outskirts of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding two others, police said.
Asserting a right to self-defense, American forces in eastern Afghanistan have launched artillery rounds into Pakistan to strike Taliban fighters who attack remote U.S. outposts, the commander of U.S. forces in the region said Sunday.
Harvard University is expected to name historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first woman president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.
A fire engulfed an abandoned house in west Philadelphia early Sunday, killing four children and a woman who had apparently taken refuge there from the cold, authorities said.
Parish, N.Y., reached a milestone early Saturday with 100 inches of snow during the past seven days, according to the National Weather Service. That was pushed to 110 inches by early Sunday with the fresh snowfall.
A 7-ton truck overturned during a training exercise at Miramar air base in California early Saturday, killing one Marine and injuring 19 others, authorities said. The truck was part of a six-vehicle convoy on regularly scheduled training when it went off a dirt road and overturned sometime after 3 a.m. at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, base spokesman Maj. Todd Sudmeyer said.
