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Most popular news on 13 June 2009 |
Sub collides with sonar array towed by U.S. Navy ship
In what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.
Suspect in California girl's death pleads not guilty
A woman accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old Northern California girl -- her daughter's playmate -- pleaded not guilty at a Friday hearing, according to a court spokeswoman.
Election officials: Ahmadinejad has large lead in Iran
Defying many predictions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a commanding lead in the presidential vote count early Saturday, election officials with Iran's Interior Ministry said.
Born in male body, Jenny knew early that she was a girl
Henry Joseph Madden was a good student and track team member in high school, but he had a secret: He sometimes wore his mother's pantyhose and underwear under his clothes.
Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you
Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty.
Inmate's behind-bars bar mitzvah rattles chain of N.Y. officials
New York officials want to know how a jail inmate threw a lavish bar mitzvah for his son inside a detention facility, complete with live music and catered kosher food.
Rifle used in museum shooting too old to trace, official says
It is not possible for authorities to trace the rifle used in this week's shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum to the original purchaser, a law enforcement source said Friday.
Flight 447 mystery likely to cast shadow over Paris Air Show
The world's premier air show takes place in Paris next week, with the recent loss of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean likely to cast a shadow over the event.
U.S. student says she wasn't at home night roommate died
American college student Amanda Knox told an Italian courtroom Friday that she was at the home of her boyfriend the night her roommate was killed two years ago, her attorney said.
After 7 years at Gitmo, resettled Uyghurs grateful for freedom
Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward President Obama for working to free them.
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