Bodies lie scattered in a rural field in the southern Philippines, some unearthed from a shallow grave hastily dug by the gunmen who seized the group of men and women just a day earlier.
President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said after he and the National Security Council met.
The United States won't join its NATO allies and many other countries in formally banning landmines, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said during his midday briefing Tuesday.
When Amanda Knox's parents head to Italy for closing arguments in their daughter's murder trial, they'll be carrying a present they desperately hope she can use: a plane ticket home.