Syria denies Houla killings, UN condemns attack

Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the U.N. Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas.

• Dozens of children killed in new Syria attack
• Syria denies responsibility for attack killing 90

In My Opinion

Hunting for elephants, unleashing political tsunamis

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. That is, unless the governor of Florida, the Honorable Blinkless and Clueless One, brings up shooting elephants to the king.

GAY RIGHTS

Gay Cuban Americans appalled by Mariela Castro visit

Cuban-American gay activists in Miami are dismayed by Mariela Castro events in San Francisco and New York.

NY appeals court: Spy agency can withhold photo

A federal appeals court has upheld a decision allowing the CIA to withhold a photo of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist after his interrogation.

• Who's still being held at Guantánamo

Miami

Wife of Lockerbie victim sees no “justice” in convicted bomber’s death

A Miami woman whose husband died in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing, however, sees ‘no sense of justice’ in the freed bomber’s death of cancer.

Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire" eclipse.

• Millions look skyward as eclipse crosses Asia, US

Haiti

Remnants of Haiti’s army march in the capital; two Americans were among those arrested

Two Americans were among 46 people arrested during a demonstration in the capital. They are being held under suspicion of aiding Haiti’s rogue army.

Bay of Pigs

Judge: keep part of CIA’s Bay of Pigs history secret

In a decision called a ‘blow to the right to know,’ a judge ruled that the final chapter of the CIA’s history of Bay of Pigs won’t be declassified.