Aleppo battle rages as both sides report atrocities The Syrian army pressed its assault on rebels in commercial capital Aleppo on Sunday, while both sides reported atrocities and Arab foreign ministers postponed a planned meeting on the 17-month conflict.
Jennifer Aniston is engaged to screenwriter Justin Theroux For the first time after her ill-fated break-up with Brad Pitt, US actress Jennifer Aniston is engaged to be married again -- this time to a much less known actor-screenwriter, Justin Theroux.
Olympics: Curtain falls on 'glorious' London Games The London Olympics closed in a blaze of music and colour Sunday after a two-week sporting festival that electrified the host nation and was watched by billions around the world.
13 August 2012 17:05
Obama: 'I'm no Usain Bolt' US President Barack Obama warned supporters Sunday that he was no Usain Bolt, and that his re-election bid would be a fight all the way to the finish line, not an easy jog to victory.
13 August 2012 16:42
Romney vows to restore US strength Republican candidate Mitt Romney vowed to restore American strength and avert "fiscal calamity" Sunday, as his re-energized presidential campaign drew a furious Democratic response.
13 August 2012 15:51
Olga Rypakova did not get a cabrioletThe information that the Mayor of East-Kazakhstan oblast gave a cabriolet to Olympic champion Olga Rypakova turned out to be not true.
Iran steps up relief efforts after quakes kill 227 Iran on Sunday stepped up relief operations in shattered villages in its northeast after saying rescue operations were completed following a double earthquake which cost 227 lives and injured 1,380 people.
