8/14  Standard Chartered chief in NY to defend US allegations

8/13  Fukushima 'caused mutant butterflies'

8/14  Exclusive: Libyan fighters join Syrian revolt  ""The Western governments are bringing this upon themselves. The longer they leave this door open for this torture and this massacre to carry on, the more young men will drop what they have in this life and search for the afterlife," Najjar said.

"If the West and other countries do not move fast it will no longer be just guys like me - normal everyday guys that might do anything from have a cigarette to go out on the town - it will be the real extreme guys who will take it to another level."

8/14  Oil price inflates as speculators bet on stimulus

8/13  Paul Ryan on soapbox at Iowa State Fair

8/12  In Upheaval for Egypt, Morsi Forces Out Military Chiefs

8/14  Gunman who killed two near Texas campus was being evicted

8/14  New storm threatens flood-hit Philippines

8/13  Eighth tropical depression to test Filipinos’ spirit of resiliency

8/10  Remarks by the President at Iftar Dinner   "And some of you, as you arrived tonight, may have seen our special display, courtesy of our friends at the Library of Congress -- the Koran that belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

8/13  Farmers abandon fields larger than Belgium and Luxembourg, food prices set to surge due to drought

8/9  Foreign policy divides US right

8/12  Mumbai on alert after weekend riot

8/12  Navy: U.S. destroyer collides with oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

8/12  All threats "dwarfed" by Iran nuclear work: Israel PM

8/14   17-foot-long, 164-pound Burmese python caught in Everglades; snake euthanized and awaits study

8/14  Violence disrupts France’s summer doldrums  As he spoke, officials were estimating the damage from an overnight riot in Amiens, about 72 miles north of Paris, during which dozens of youths, some of them hooded and carrying shotguns, battled police and set fire to public buildings and parked cars. Local officials said 16 riot police officers were injured, some by buckshot and others by gasoline bombs.  The violence began Sunday evening

8/14  Police: MMA fighter 'Mayhem' Miller found naked in church

8/24  Flex alert issued for Tuesday as heat wave continues

8/24  Iran quake: Rescuers find more bodies

8/24  Standard Chartered, New York regulator reach $340 million settlement

8/24  Afghan blasts: Dozens killed in Nimroz and Kunduz