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Just over three years and two months ago, Steven Green raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and murdered her, her parents and her six-year-old sister in the family’s isolated farm house 20 miles south of Baghdad. On Thursday afternoon, after deliberating on a death sentence for 10 hours over two days, a jury of nine women and three men in Paducah, Kentucky’s U.S.
Even "American Idol" winner Kris Allen couldn’t believe it. When Allen, the clean-cut guy from Arkansas, triumphed over the spiky-haired rocker Adam Lambert to win season eight of the competition, he seemed positively astounded.
It was just two days after the Inauguration when an e-mail went around to Michelle Obama’s staff, instructing everyone to be in the East Room of the White House at 3 that afternoon.
Perhaps Ryan Seacrest said it best at the top of the "American Idol" Tuesday night when describing Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, the show’s final two contestants. “It is the battle of the acoustic rocker verses the glam rocker. Conway (Arkansas) versus California
He arrives in the early morning hours, when the downtown streets here are empty and quiet. An electric gate jerks to life as the black sedan with tinted windows pulls into a parking lot protected by an iron fence.
For more than a quarter-century, the Tamil Tigers have waged a guerilla war against the Sri Lankan government in their attempt to establish an independent state — which they call Eelam — for minority Hindu Tamils in the north and east of the island nation.
Facing the crushing defeat of their 26-year insurgency as Sri Lankan military closes in on the last sliver of territory under their control, the embattled separatist fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are not expected to allow themselves to be taken alive.
In a special report for CNN’s Eye on Russia week, Moscow Correspondent Matthew Chance travels across the vast country from the northern port of Murmansk in the Arctic to the southern city of Sochi on the Black Sea. Here Chance recalls some highlights from his epic journey. Arctic Ambitions MURMANSK — What an incredible, surprising place to begin a journey
The initial U.S. military statement on the killings Monday at Camp Liberty in Baghdad was predictably terse. “Five Coalition forces members were killed in a shooting at Camp Liberty in Baghdad today at approximately 2 p.m.,” the statement read
After 43 years, our relationship with the Franchise had grown so familiar and worn that we’d quietly moved into separate bedrooms.