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2 Western journalists killed in Syria, opposition activists say

Two Western journalists were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces, opposition activists said.

The Sunday Times of London said one of the journalists reportedly killed was staffer Marie Colvin -- the only British newspaper journalist inside the embattled Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr.

And French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe confirmed journalist Remi Ochlik was killed in a bombing. He was 28.

Colvin was on air with CNN on Tuesday night, recalling ...

Sugarland lawyers: Fans share blame for injuries in Indiana stage collapse

Attorneys for country duo Sugarland say some concertgoers' injuries from a deadly stage collapse last year at an Indiana State Fair were "their own fault" and they "failed to exercise due care for their own safety," according to court documents.

Several families of victims from the August incident have filed a lawsuit against Sugarland, contending it was negligent in the stage collapse that left seven people dead and more than 40 injured. The incident occurred after a storm toppled scaffold...

More Hollywood films set for China

Hong Kong -- In a boon for IMAX and movie-watchers in China alike, a deal struck between the United States and China last week raises the number of 3D, IMAX and similar enhanced-format movies released in China.

China has remained mostly closed to Hollywood, with a quota of 20 foreign films per year, most of them being from the United States. Under the agreement, announced during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's trip to Los Angeles with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, 14 additional IMAX or ...

The making of a prodigy

Newport, Rhode Island (CNN) -- It's a balmy summer night at the Newport Jazz Festival, and saxophonist Grace Kelly is welcoming an audience of about 500 at the Harbor Stage.

"Hello, Newport!" she calls, launching into "The Way You Look Tonight," all silky runs and warm phrasing.

As her band members take solos, she smiles, humming along with their playing, a tic reminiscent of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. She dances little jigs. She sings. She basks in the thrill of the music.

Kelly is all of 19...

On first anniversary of Mubarak's ouster, unease reigns in Egypt

Cairo -- Hosni Mubarak's fall from power a year ago stunned the world -- three decades of iron-clad rule ended in 17 days by an unexpected groundswell of popular protests.

A banner headline in the Al-Ahram newspaper said: "The people have toppled the regime."

But in the year that followed, Egyptians increasingly realized that what they ousted was one man, not the military that stood behind him. And they grew bitterly frustrated at what they perceive as the slow pace of change.

Saturday brought ...

Myanmar to consider allowing neighbors to observe elections

The Myanmar government will "seriously consider" accepting observers from neighboring countries to monitor elections taking place in April, a regional organization said Tuesday.

In a meeting Tuesday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, President Thein Sein said Myanmar would consider allowing observers from the association to watch the elections.

"The two leaders agreed that such a move will boost transparency, which will add to the international goodwill that Myanmar had attracte...

John Glenn's true hero

Editor's note: CNN contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."

(CNN) -- For half a century, the world has applauded John Glenn as a heart-stirring American hero. He lifted the nation's spirits when, as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, he was blasted alone into orbit around the Earth; the enduring affection for him is so powerful that even now people find themselves mi...

3 dead in Washington avalanche

Three people were killed Sunday in an avalanche near a ski resort in Washington state, officials with the King County Sheriff's Office said.

Spokeswoman Katie Larson said several groups of skiers were caught in the deadly rush.

"Almost all of them -- probably up to 12 at some point -- are buried in the snow. They manage to dig themselves out. ... At that point then, they look and they find that three of these skiers are suffering from medical issues. They begin CPR and, unfortunately, they we...

Alanya's history

By A.yurdakul : Alanya is a touristic centre on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, 135 kilometers east of Antalya. Excavations have shown that the Alanya area was inhabited as early as prehistoric times. Alanya first appears in the 2nd century B.C. as a pirate lair and it was known then as Korakesion.The Romans later captured the town in their campaign to suppress piracy in the eastern Mediterranean. It came under Byzantine rule after 395. In 1220 the Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad.I took the ...

Central bank aid sought in Greek bail-out

(Financial Times) -- Eurozone governments are looking to the European Central Bank and national central banks to help pare back the cost of a second rescue package for Greece which would otherwise amount to €170bn.

Figures seen by the Financial Times reveal Greece needs €136bn in fresh bail-out funding from the European Union and International Monetary Fund -- in addition to the €34bn left over from Greece's first bail-out. This is €6bn more than EU leaders agreed in October. Germany, the Net...

Nuclear officials meet Iranian leaders as war talk looms

Tehran, Iran -- Officials with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency begin a second round of talks Monday with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear program, a day after Tehran cut off crude exports to British and French companies in retaliation for a new round of sanctions imposed on the regime.

The two days of talks come amid heightened tensions in the region, with Israel making clear it is pondering an attack on Tehran's nuclear infrastructure, while Iran warned it could cut off the nar...

Battlefield to boardroom: The army guide to negotiation

Jeff Weiss had spent 20 years teaching negotiation skills to top executives when he realized those techniques might be just as valuable to soldiers on the battlefield.

So a decade ago, he approached the U.S. Military to teach officers negotiation tools and strategies they could use in a theater of war. The West Point Negotiation Project was founded, and before long, Weiss made another realization: the lessons could go the other way, too.

"There's a ton to take from the military back to the c...

Death toll climbs to 34 in Pakistan blast

Islamabad, Pakistan -- The death toll climbed to 34 following an explosion Friday at a market in Pakistan's tribal region, a senior government official said Sunday.

The deaths occurred when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle drove into a crowded market in Parachinar, a town in the Kurrum Agency, said Sahibzada Anis Khan, a government official who oversees the region.

The blast wounded 42 people, said Shahab Ali Shah, a government official of the Kurram Agency, one of the seven districts of Pakis...

Unions protest Spanish labor reforms

Madrid -- Spain's largest unions carried out mass protests across the country Sunday in response to labor-market changes announced by the government.

Protesters packed the streets of Madrid, marching against measures they said will make it cheaper and easier to fire workers.

Sunday's demonstrations were the first major union protests against Spain's new conservative government, which took office two months ago.

Spain's unemployment rate is nearly 23%, and its youth unemployment rate is nearly 5...

Homs a 'bleeding wound' as medical aid dire

After 16 straight days of bombardment, Homs is such an incessantly bleeding wound that Syrians speak of it now as though it were a norm. Theirs are voices of resignation as food, medicine, water, electricity dwindle and Bashar al-Assad's forces show no intent of letting up.

"Is today Sunday? Wednesday? Saturday? I honestly don't know all days have become same here in #Homs- they begin and end with shelling #Syria" tweeted @Samsomhom.

Activist Omar Shakir told CNN he is confident the Syrian ar...

Anthony Shadid: A reporter's storyteller

Editor's note: Journalist Anthony Shadid edited and mentored CNN journalist Chelsea J. Carter when they worked in Los Angeles years ago. They stayed in touch through the years and later both worked in Baghdad. Carter wrote this remembrance of Shadid after learning of his death in Syria of an apparent asthma attack.

Atlanta -- The last time I talked to Anthony Shadid, I made him promise not to become another headline.

He didn't keep his promise.

I learned through a headline -- along with the rest...

'Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead'

Bahrain's Formula One organizers insist that the Gulf state's grand prix race will go ahead as planned in April, despite recent fears that its political situation has not improved.

A group of British peers appealed for the race to be called off in an open letter to The Times newspaper last week, saying that the same problems of social instability prevail as when last year's event was called off.

However, a spokesman for the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) insisted on Tuesday -- the annive...

Rally row: Does the Dakar damage a delicate environment?

It's a breathtaking scenario. Hundreds of petrol-heads roaring across some of South America's most stunning landscapes in a grueling two-week endurance race where the competitors are at the mercy of treacherous terrain.

The Dakar Rally's 465 competitors speed through the daunting sand dunes of Atacama desert one day, and traverse the snow-capped Andes mountain range the next in a 9,000-kilometer coast-to-coast marathon taking in Argentina, Chile and, this year, Peru.

But environmentalists are...

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