In a pre-dawn raid on Thursday, 24 soldiers scaled aboard a hijacked ship in the Gulf of Aden, arrested the nine and freeing the ship — all without firing a shot, the American military said. (full story...)

President Barack Obama plans to award a posthumous Medal of Honor to an Army staff sergeant -- a Wheaton North High School graduate -- who gave his life to save his fellow soldiers and 15 members of the Afghanistan National Army. (full story...)

A carload of suspected Islamist suicide bombers attack Mogadishu airport, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say. (full story...)

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of warTwelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as t....(more) (full story...)

AFP - The main body of survivors of Rwanda's genocide, Ibuka, said Thursday that it supports a trial ongoing in Belgium against the Belgian state and three soldiers, accused of failing to protect people. (full story...)

European commission chief must make clear that Sarkozy's anti-Gypsy campaign breaches race and human rights lawsOn Tuesday, José Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, delivered his first "state of the union" speech to the European parliament. He did not mention the issue of the Roma once.The previous day Barroso had met t....(more) (full story...)

The new live action update will hopefully do better than this animated effort, which pillages and burns its way through sixth-century Chinese historyDirector: Tony Bancroft and Barry CookEntertainment grade: B+History grade: EMulan was a legendary Chinese heroine, said to have disguised herself as a man and joined an army. PeopleIt seems young Mula....(more) (full story...)

Dictator Kim Jong-il apparently too ill to hold party congress where he is expected to anoint son Kim Jong-un as next leaderNorth Korea has marked its 62nd anniversary today amid speculation that its dictator, Kim Jong-il, is not well enough to open a rare meeting of ruling party members that could see his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, effectively nam....(more) (full story...)

Gunmen open fire on soldiers in southern Yemen, killing at least one and wounding others. (full story...)

The third of a five-part memoir chronicling an Iraq war veteran’s passage from youth to soldier to civilian writer. (full story...)