Little Rock, AR - A Muslim convert who pleaded not guilty to killing a soldier outside a recruiting center had the firepower to take out many more while on a mission to "kill as many people in the Army as he could," police said. In documents released Tuesday, authorities said they recovered Molotov cocktails, three guns and ammunition from Abdulhakim Muhammad's truck after the attack Monday...

Jerusalem - With U.S. President Barack Obama seemingly determined to push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu equally adamant that he lacks a real partner for peace, the United States and Israel seem destined for a clash. But there are larger forces at work than the policies of either government. The face of Israel is...

New York - I stole a laundry bag from the Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires. It was made of thick ivory linen, embroidered with the words “dry cleaning” in cerulean blue, and looked like something that I could have found at an antique textiles show. But that wasn’t the case. I’m usually pretty scrupulous about purloined souvenirs. Of course, I help myself to soap and shampoo, sewing...

New York - Friends of Mark and Andy Madoff tell Vanity Fair writer David Margolick that Andrew has called what his father did to him and his brother “a father-son betrayal of biblical proportions,” and has said that to categorize it as being blindsided would amount to the understatement of the century. But others, including Madoff alumni, don’t believe the boys could have been unaware of...

Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A Bosnian Jew and an ethnic Roma are taking Bosnia to the European Court of Human Rights because the country's constitution prevents them from running for presidency and parliament. A statement from Minority Rights Group International said that the two will challenge their state at the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It...

Mea Shearim, Israel - A group of ultra-orthodox women has recently launched a campaign supporting gender separation on public buses, in response to claims that segregation was being forced on haredi women by rabbis. The lobby's founder, Rebetzen Yocheved Grossman of Mea Shearim, explained to Ynet that the initiative enjoyed the support of the wives of senior rabbis from all the haredi...

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Atlantic ABC News has confirmed that Air France received a bomb threat over the phone concerning a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Paris just days before Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday night. Officials try to piece together where Air France Flight 447 hit the water. Authorities at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport delayed the...

Riydah — U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah on Wednesday on the eve of a much-anticipated speech in Cairo the U.S. leader hopes will help repair America's damaged image in the Islamic world. After an airport welcome in Riyadh, Obama traveled to King Abdullah's farm where the two men were to hold talks expected to cover the Arab-Israeli conflict...

Moscow, Russia - Israel does not intend to bomb Iran, Israel's foreign minister said in the most explicit comments on the matter to date by a top minister of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to Russia, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tehran's nuclear program is the world's problem, not just Israel's, and that its Arab neighbors...

Washington - One small thing about the Big Apple is the crime rate -- New York is America's safest big city by a mile, new FBI crime stats show. New York has the lowest crime rate of the 25 largest cities in the country, Mayor Bloomberg announced. And of the 261 cities with more than 100,000 residents, New York's crime rate ranked 246th. Violent crime plunged 4 percent in New York last...

Kiryas Joel, NY - Mayor Abraham Wieder and his allies will get a free ride at the polls today, their first uncontested race since an opposition movement launched an unprecedented – and unsuccessful – challenge to their power in 2001. This time around, only one opposition candidate stepped forward to run in an election for mayor and two trustee seats – and he was disqualified after he...

New York - Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden backtracked yesterday from comments he made at a Democratic fund-raiser in Manhattan that were widely viewed as an endorsement of Gov. Paterson's re-election. "It was a statement of friendship and admiration for the governor, and was not intended as a political statement," Biden spokes woman Elizabeth Alexander said. Speaking of Paterson...

Washington - A U.S. document containing sensitive details about hundreds of civilian nuclear sites across the country was posted online, an apparently inadvertent security breach that had federal officials scrambling to remedy the mistake. The document, a draft declaration of U.S. nuclear facilities to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, contained descriptions of sensitive civilian sites...