At a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, President Obama spoke out on the controversy over a community center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York. Elaine Quijano reports.
Satellite photographs on NASA's website show hundreds of hot spots generated by wildfires across central and western Russia. State media reported that carbon monoxide levels in Moscow were more than six times the maximum allowable.
Nearly 1,400 people have died and 875,000 homes have washed away or are damaged by relentless monsoon rains, the Pakistan Disaster Authority says. About 20 million people have been affected by the flooding.
Police in Northern Ireland said "it was an absolute miracle" that three children were not seriously injured Saturday in a bomb explosion in County Armagh.
Landslides triggered by torrential rain have left at least 38 people missing in southwest China's Sichuan province Saturday, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
Skydivers in Wloclawek, Poland, falling at a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour, broke the European record for the largest mid-air formation totaling 104 people.
As many as four African migrants from Ethiopia and Eritrea trying to cross into Israel from Egypt's Sinai desert were shot dead by smugglers and 10 others were wounded, according to state media.
