Pro-government demonstrators in Syria have surrounded the Damascus bureau of Al Jazeera and are threatening to burn it to the ground after the network covered the regime’s massacre of protesters. Police fired into a crowd in the town of Sanamein on…

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Syria Protests Leave Dozens Dead

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Diane Sawyer Tuesday that Muammar Gaddafi’s confidants have reached out on his behalf to explore a possible exit. But on the ground, Gaddafi’s forces appear to be winning, carrying out assaults on the towns of…

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Gaddafi Continues Ground Assault

Huge shock absorbers, walls that slide and Teflon foundation pads that isolate buildings from the ground all help explain why medium- and high-rise structures in Japan remained standing in the wake of the country’s largest earthquake on record , construction experts said Friday.

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Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is “safe and well” while UK embassy staff are investigating the situation on the ground after a massive earthquake hit Japan.

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BBC orchestra ‘safe’ after quake

A crown court judge rugby-tackled a sex offender to the ground to stop him escaping from court, the Old Bailey hears.

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Judge rugby-tackled sex offender

A 17-year-old boy is charged with killing a man who died after he was punched and fell to the ground in Greater Manchester.

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Teenager on manslaughter charge

Change is happening from the ground up in Egypt, as a group of anti-Mubarak protesters declared Sunday to be the first official session of the People’s Popular Parliament. The committee, formed to negotiate the people’s demands with the state, includes…

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Egypt Rebels Form New Parliament

Steven Lee Myers, The Times’s outgoing Baghdad bureau chief, is taking readers’ questions on the mood on the ground in Iraq.

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At War: Q. and A.: Ask the Baghdad Bureau

Colombian police catch a pigeon being used to smuggle drugs into a prison after it fell to the ground because of excess weight.

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Colombia police nab drug-laden pigeon

Passengers aboard a flight from Oslo to Istanbul overpowered a would-be hijacker Wednesday night, tackling the man to the ground when he attempted to enter the cockpit as the plane was about to land. The man, identified as a Turk named Cuma Yasar, was…

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Passengers Foil Attempted Hijacking

At Sugarloaf, Maine’s second-highest mountain, five chairs fell off a ski lift on Tuesday, as 40 mph winds derailed the transportation device. Stunned skiers fell nearly 30 feet from the lift to the ground, injuring six skiers, but none were…

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Chairs Fall Off Ski Lift in Maine

In Russia snow can stay on the ground for up to four months. Russians are accustomed to tough winters and manage to keep their airports open despite them.

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How Russian airports stay open in winter

A spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan has written a 2,300-word letter to Congress, calling upon American lawmakers to get “a true picture of the ground realities” of the war in Afghanistan. In what appears to be the first letter that the group has…

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Taliban Writes Letter to Congress

Lauren Valle, the woman who was pushed to the ground and then stomped on by Rand Paul supporters outside Monday night’s debate, has a concussion and sprained arm and shoulder, according to MoveOn.org. Rand Paul has denounced the incident as “incredibly…

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Rand Paul Heckler Has Concussion

Steven Thrasher at The Village Voice has a theory on the current political deadlock, on Arizona’s immigration bill, the ground zero mosque, Glenn Beck, Christine O’Donnell, and Carl Paladino: White people have gone stark raving mad. The lunacy…

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Have White People Lost Their Minds?