Under fire,
U.S. cruise ship
outruns pirates
Ship carrying 1,000 passengers 'very fortunate' to escape hijack bid, official says. Full story
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Ship carrying 1,000 passengers 'very fortunate' to escape hijack bid, official says. Full story
U.N.: Survivors 'sick and exhausted' after being dumped in sea. Full story
Elsewhere, funerals begin for Jewish victims of Mumbai attacks. Story | Video
Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces two highly unpalatable choices after opposition parties signed an unprecedented deal on Monday to bring down his minority Conservative government.
Thailand's prime minister resigned on Tuesday after protests that paralyzed his government and closed the capital's airports. Protesters promised to lift their siege by Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a piano recital for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
The U.S. can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
At least 20 people drowned after smugglers forced their passengers overboard off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
India demanded that Pakistan hand over suspected terrorists believed to be living in the country Tuesday as Israelis began burying the six Jews killed in one of the Mumbai attacks.
A court sentenced Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," to death Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity while crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in Iraq.