Month: December 2011

Imagine a future in which you always know the date of baseball's opening day. Or that your birthday is always on a Tuesday (sorry). Or that New Year's Eve is always on a Saturday. As the people of the world prepare to hang their 2012 calendar…

North Korean state television started broadcasting footage Thursday of huge crowds assembled in Pyongyang at a national memorial service for the leader Kim Jong Il, who died earlier this month.

An Arab League observer steps into a mosque in the city of Homs and is shown the tiny "martyr," one of thousands of people killed in Syria during the past nine months.

An Arab League observer steps into a mosque in the city of Homs and is shown the tiny “martyr,” one of thousands of people killed in Syria during the past nine months.

The U.S. Navy said Iran's threat to block the strategically and economically important Strait of Hormuz is unacceptable.

The U.S. Navy said Iran's threat to block the strategically and economically important Strait of Hormuz is unacceptable.