18 boys were killed in Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad, when a car bomb exploded Tuesday near a park popular with young soccer players, police and Iraqi state television said.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor on Tuesday linked Sudan’s government to atrocities in Darfur, naming a minister close to the president as a war crimes suspect who helped recruit, arm and bankroll the murderous desert fighters known as the janjaweed.
U.S. and Iraqi forces staged raids in Baghdad’s main Shiite militant stronghold Tuesday as part of politically sensitive forays into areas loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Southwest of the capital, three American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb.
A human rights group is asking President Bush to disclose the fates of all terror suspects held since 2001, including at least 16 it believes have been locked up in secret CIA facilities.
One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate. Nearly 45 percent was found in young women within the age range recommended for a new virus-fighting vaccine, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A hail storm left hundreds of divots on space shuttle Atlantis’ external fuel tank, and NASA managers weren’t sure Tuesday if the damage was severe enough to postpone next month’s launch.
An Army medic pleaded guilty Tuesday to the shooting death of a fellow soldier in Iraq during a night of heavy drinking. Spc. Chris Rolan, 23, accepted the agreement to plead guilty to unpremeditated murder, violating a general order against drinking in Iraq, communicating a threat and reckless endangerment.
