In a meeting with senior politicians, President Hu Jintao calls for 'a system of public opinion guidance on the Internet.' Analysts say the Mideast, Libya protests have shaken Beijing ... With a wary eye on popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Chinese leaders are calling for new ways to defuse social unrest in what appears to be an ominous harbinger of tighter controls on the Internet and elsewhere ...
SEATTLE - The reported deaths of four Americans, including a Seattle couple, in piracy off Somalia is terrible news for friends at the Seattle Singles Yacht Club ...
COMMERCE - An independent probe into how the death of crusading journalist Ruben Salazar was handled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is to be released today, and the public will have limited access to eight boxes of documents on the case ...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years ...
LOS ANGELES - A friend and former professor of a California man whose yacht was hijacked by Somali pirates said Sunday that Scott Adam wanted to combine his love of adventure with his faith by spreading Bibles around the world ...