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Internet service goes out across Syria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

By By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was closed by heavy fighting in the country's civil war. Activists said President

Wave of attacks in Iraq kills at least 43 people

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

By By SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) - Back-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq on Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials said. The attacks in Hillah began with a roadside

French court overturns Concorde crash conviction

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

By By GREG KELLER VERSAILLES, France (AP) - In a surprise ruling in one of the most high-profile disasters in aviation history, a French appeals court Thursday overturned manslaughter convictions against Continental Airlines and a mechanic for the 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde that

French court overturns Concorde crash conviction

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

Former Kosovo prime minister returns to Kosovo

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

By By NEBI QENA and MIKE CORDERAssociated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - A former prime minister of Kosovo pledged Thursday to political life after a U.N. war crimes tribunal acquitted him for the second time of murdering and torturing Serbs and their supporters in Kosovo's war for

Probe of boat's sinking leads to crab pot lines

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) - Testimony in a second round of hearings into a fishing vessel that sank off the Washington coast, killing four people, has raised the possibility that the boat got tangled in crab pot lines. The Lady Cecilia sank quickly March 10 about 20 miles west of Leadbetter Point. The

Woman on trial in killing of Fla. lottery winner

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

By By TAMARA LUSHAssociated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Abraham Shakespeare could barely read, wrote his name in block letters and had given away most of his $17 million in lottery winnings when he became friends with Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, a calculating woman who later became his financial

Opening statements made in trial of 2009 death

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors say the woman on trial for killing a Florida lottery winner swindled the barely literate man out of nearly $1.5 million before shooting him and burying his body in her backyard. Opening statements were given in a Tampa courtroom Wednesday in the trial of Dorice "Dee

Transit Bus Plows Into Home; 6-Year-Old Boy Killed Inside

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - A transit bus hit a pedestrian and then slammed into a suburban New York City house, killing a 6-year-old boy who was inside the home. Eleven people on the bus suffered minor injuries. Police say the Nassau Inter County Express bus plowed into the multi-

Indonesia green lights Russia's Sukhoi jet to fly

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia has certified a Russian-made passenger jetliner as safe to fly in the country six months after the same model crashed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, an official said Wednesday. The Sukhoi Superjet-100 was deemed airworthy last week by the country