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  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, greets Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, left as her husband Prince Philip watches from the center at the opening of The British Garden in Hanover Square. (Photo: Associated Press)

    The Top 10 visits by Queen Elizabeth II to America

    The 84-year-old British monarch has made numerous trips over the years to her nation's most famed former colony. We list the top trips.


  • South Koreans visit the wreckage of a warship that the government says was sunk by a North Korean torpedo in March. North Korean military officers and an American-led U.N. Command will discuss the sinking of the ship on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

    U.N. Command to hold talks on sunken South Korean ship

    Military officers from North Korea and the American-led U.N. Command will hold rare talks Tuesday on the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship, the command said, their first meeting since the incident dramatically raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula.


  • ONE AMONG SCORES: A Ugandan man is being treated for his injuries at a hospital after twin terrorist attacks killed 74 World Cup viewers and injured many more in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Al-Shabaab, which has pledged loyalty to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility. (Associated Press)

    Somali Islamists claim Uganda carnage

    A senior member of the Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab on Monday claimed responsibility for a pair of terrorist attacks in Uganda that left 74 World Cup viewers dead, including one American.


  • Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir

    Sudan leader charged with three counts of genocide

    The International Criminal Court on Monday issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir, this time charging him with three counts of genocide in Sudan's western province of Darfur.


  • Menmen Villose is one of thousands of earthquake homeless who sought refuge at the Corail-Cesselesse camp, but has walked into a fight over undeveloped land where urban planners envision the "new Haiti." (Associated Press)

    No room for poor in 'new Haiti'

    The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with machetes came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto her bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her and her four children.


  • Members of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team wait in New York's Times Square for their travel visas. The players cannot fly to England for the World Lacrosse Championship because the U.S. government won't allow them to re-enter the country on Iroquois Confederacy passports. (Associated Press)

    Iroquois IDs may stop lacrosse team

    The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse, but their team might not travel to England for the sport's world championship this year because of a dispute over the validity of their passports.


  • ** FILE ** Trucks carrying supplies to coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in NATO operations in Logar province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammed Obaid Ormur, File)

    Afghan civilian deaths rise, but NATO kills fewer

    Escalating violence in Afghanistan is now the worst since the early months of the nearly 9-year-old war, killing 1,074 civilians so far this year as international forces struggle to establish security, an Afghan rights group said Monday.


  • This file photo shows South Korea lifting the remaining half of the Cheonan from the Yellow Sea waters off Baengnyeong Island in April 2010. On March 26, 2010, the naval warship sank after a mysterious explosion that left 46 sailors dead. On July 9, 2010, investigators from South Korea, the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Sweden concluded that it was struck by a torpedo of North Korean origin. (Yonhap via Associated Press)

    N. Korea, U.S.-led U.N. Command to meet over sinking

    North Korea and the American-led U.N. Command will hold rare talks Tuesday on the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship, the command said, their first meeting since the incident dramatically raised tensions on the Korean peninsula.


  • A grieving Bosnian Muslim woman is comforted near the coffin of her relative, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Potocari, Bosnia, on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Thousands gathered in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury hundreds of massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

    Bosnia marks 1995 Srebrenica massacre

    Weeping among endless rows of coffins, tens of thousands gathered Sunday in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury hundreds of massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era.


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