A compromise plan that would allow some development on parts of Colorado's 4 million acres of roadless forests is drawing fire from critics who say it would leave the areas less protected than comparable public land in every other state.
Pirates who seized a ship laden with tanks off the Horn of Africa were seeking ransom and keeping most of the 35 people aboard in a single stuffy room, a man identified as the captain's aide said in a report on a Russian news Web site Saturday.
Sixteen violins found in Nazi concentration camps and abandoned Jewish communities after World War II have made music together for the first time in a concert outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region is experiencing the worst outbreak of hostilities since it won de facto indepdence� in 1992. NBC News' Moscow producer explains the issues behind the violence.
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