HEIDI VOGT,Associated Press
RAHIM FAIEZ,Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A NATO airstrike killed at least five private security guards Tuesday who were apparently involved in guarding a supply convoy for international troops, Afghan police said.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A tornado ripped across part of New Zealand’s largest city on Tuesday, upturning cars and sending debris slicing through the air, witnesses and news reports said. At least one person was killed and about 20 injured, a hospital official said.
ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices eased off 2½ year highs to below $113 a barrel Monday after President Barack Obama announced that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been killed.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The eerie wail of air raid sirens brought bustling Israel to a halt on Monday, marking two minutes of silence in memory of the 6 million Jews who perished during the Nazi Holocaust.
MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament passed a 4 trillion yen ($48 billion) tsunami recovery budget Monday, but it will cover only a fraction of the cost of what was the most expensive disaster ever.
NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press
ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Four helicopters swooped in early Monday and killed Osama bin Laden in a fiery American raid on his fortress-like compound in a Pakistani town that is home to three army regiments. His location raised pointed questions over whether Pakistani authorities knew the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted man.
BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press
KARIN LAUB, Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said early Sunday. Hours later, Gadhafi’s forces shelled a besieged rebel port in a sign that the airstrike had not forced a change in regime tactics.
LONDON (AP) — With a smile that lit up TV screens around the world, Kate Middleton swept down the aisle to marry Prince William in a union expected to revitalize the British monarchy. Hundreds of thousands cheered as the royal couple rode an open carriage to Buckingham Palace.
STEVEN R. HURST,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has produced his detailed birth certificate from Hawaii, hoping to clamp off a resurrection of claims he was born outside the United States and declaring the country did not have the “time for this kind of silliness.”
BASSEM MROUE,Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — The city at the heart of Syria’s monthlong uprising ran low on food, water and medicine Wednesday as the army sent in more tanks and reinforcements as part of a widening crackdown against opponents of President Bashar Assad’s authoritarian regime, witnesses said.
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