CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness. James Holmes' lawyers made the disclosure at a court … Colorado shooting: Will shooter get lawyer mental illness tag to escape death - Indian Express
Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness. James Holmes' lawyers made the disclosure at a court hearing in suburban … Government won't prosecute Goldman Sachs in probe - USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department said Thursday it won't prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe. In a written statement, the department said it conducted an exhaustive investigation of allegations brought … Salehi warns against abrupt political change in Syria - Times of India
Tropical Storm Ernesto weakens over land, kills three - Reuters
Foreign Minister John Baird flies to the Middle East Friday on a hastily organized mission intended to show Canadian support for two countries inundated with refugees fleeing the raging conflict in Syria. A trek to visit the teeming masses of displaced … 
Syrian forces have pushed rebels back from a strategic district of Aleppo, but skirmishes continued in the city and the United Nations said the conflict engulfing Syria would have no winner. Diplomats told Reuters that veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar … 
Four policeman accused of covering up the murder of Briton Neil Heywood are to go on trial in China, a day after the wife of a former top politician was tried for the killing. The four are all senior officers from Chongqing, where the UK businessman … 
* Prototype NASA landing vehicle goes up in smoke * Engineers still looking into cause of fiery accident By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug 9 (Reuters) – A small NASA lander being tested for missions to the moon and other destinations beyond … 
VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall Thursday near the oil port city of Coatzacoalcos, killing two people as it moved inland and began weakening after drenching Mexico's flood-prone southern Gulf region. Ernesto came ashore after … 
By Ali Shuaib | TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya's national assembly picked former opposition leader Mohammed Magarief as its president as the North African country's newly elected congress began its rule. Magarief, seen as a moderate Islamist, will head the … 
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's newly formed national assembly elected former opposition leader Mohammed el-Megarif as the country's interim president on Friday, the latest move to establish a democratically based leadership after decades of rule by deposed … 
LONDON -- Usain Bolt is an all-but-impossible track and field act to follow. So on Thursday night, with the stadium full and the London weather just right, David Rudisha took full advantage of performing first. There were no pacemakers in this Olympic … 
PASADENA, Calif. - The conspiracy theorists are going to go nuts when they discover that NASA's Curiosity rover landed in "Area 51" inside Gale Crater. NASA officially is naming the landing site "Yellowknife" after the capital of the Northwest … 
By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor o Get more from this author NASA's prototype landing craft of the future, Morpheus, has crashed and burned in its latest launch test. Morpheus is designed to become a general-purpose lander capable of setting down … 
AP WEMBLEY, England — The game was nearly as grand as the stage, in doubt until the last seconds and so important that the winning country's commander in chief was following it back home. Across town, Usain Bolt was doing in London what he did in … 
Leiby Kletzky wanted to walk home alone from day camp, and one day last summer, his protective parents relented. After all, they lived among close-knit Hasidic Jews in a safe Brooklyn area — a neighborhood where an 8-year-old boy should have been fine … 
LONDON - What's greater than a legend? Hero? Superhero? How about just plain ol' faster-than-anybody-ever Usain Bolt? Bolt, 25, did it again Thursday night, pulling away to another gold medal in the 200 meters with a time of 19.32 seconds -- well off … 
By Melinda Henneberger At first, I wondered what Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul had done that was so unredeemable. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Central Campus High School in Des Moines, Iowa, … 
* President stresses need to support US wind energy * Romney campaign slams 'massive subsidies and handouts' By Jeff Mason PUEBLO, Colorado, Aug 9 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, trying to blunt rival Mitt Romney's attacks on his economic record, … 
* Panoramic view shows rust-colored surface strewn with gravel * First 'self-portrait' reveals pebbles kicked up on top of craft * NASA engineers prepare vehicle for four-day software upgrade By Steve Gorman PASADENA, Calif., Aug 9 (Reuters) – The … 
* Many conservatives like Ryan * Pawlenty, Portman also on short list * Decision expected soon, possibly next week By Steve Holland and Richard Cowan NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) – With Republican Mitt Romney on the verge of choosing a vice presidential … 
(CBS News) CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Lawyers for James Holmes, the man charged in the Batman movie massacre, said Thursday that Holmes is mentally ill. The disclosure came when the lawyers appeared with Holmes at a Colorado court hearing into the attack that … 
Lawyers for George Zimmerman, accused in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, will seek a hearing under Florida's "stand your ground" self-defense law that could result in the dismissal of all criminal charges. Zimmerman's defense team is using the … 
While scientists marvel at new views of Mars from the Curiosity rover, engineers are gearing up to load new software in a bit of electronic brain surgery that will take several days to complete. by William Harwood Part of a color panorama made up of … 
TOKYO -- Japanese soccer fans who got up before dawn to watch their team take on the US women for the Olympic soccer gold medal started their day with disappointment. Just over a year ago, Japan enjoyed a stunning victory over the US in the women's … 
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syrian rebels in embattled Aleppo tried to maintain morale on Thursday by highlighting small gains in the midst of a withdrawal from the most contested area of the city, as government forces fired on their positions with jets, … 
ALEPPO: Syrian President Bashar al Assad named a new prime minister on Thursday to replace most senior government defector as his forces pushed rebels back from a strategic district in Aleppo. Assad appointed Wael al Halki, a Sunni Muslim from the … 
TOKYO: The mayor of Nagasaki called Thursday for a Japan free of nuclear fears as the city marked the 67th anniversary of its World War II atomic bombing by the United States. "Even during wartime there are certain unacceptable actions," Tomihisa Taue … 
Seventy members of a radical sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia, local media reported. The sect members included 20 … 
CAIRO -- Egyptian troops, light tanks, armored vehicles and attack helicopters are pouring into the Sinai desert to root out increasingly aggressive Islamic militants in the most significant easing to date of a key provision in the landmark 1979 peace … 
TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday backed moves to start peace talks between the Syrian regime and opposition groups as it hosted a 29-nation conference on the conflict gripping its key ally. Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters after the … 
* Bo Xilai's wife does not contest murder charge * Focus shifts to what will happen to Bo * Closed-door trial lasted just seven hours By John Ruwitch HEFEI, China, Aug 9 (Reuters) – The woman at the centre of China's most politically explosive trial in … 
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States still believes that Iran is not on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and that Tehran has not made a decision to pursue one, US officials said on Thursday. Their comments came after Israeli media reports … 
First for breaking news and analysis: Compelling world news stories from NBC News journalists. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Journalists Irina Kozlik, left, and Julia Doroshkevich show victory signs from the back of a police car on their arrival … 
MANILA -- The Philippine weather service has lifted its storm warning for the capital, Manila. Flood waters that affected more than two-million people are now receding. Three days of flooding in the capital region and immediate surrounding provinces … 
By Margaret Talev and John McCormick on August 09, 2012 President Barack Obama attacked Republican challenger Mitt Romney for opposing the extension of a tax credit for wind energy, telling a Colorado audience that letting it lapse would cost their … 
As Syrian forces struggled to drive rebels from the country's largest city, the regime's key ally Iran tried Thursday to start an alternative political process to address the crisis. Iran gathered an array of nations ranging from strong supporters of … 
* Officials say hundreds of soldiers arrive in area * Israel says Egypt acting with "determination" * Targeting "haphazard", residents say * Local villagers sceptical about military operation By Tamim Elyan SHAIKH ZUWAID, Egypt, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Egypt … 
(AP) LONDON – When the stakes are the biggest, the spotlight most bright, Usain Bolt is as good as gold. Good as there's ever been. Putting the field far enough behind that he could slow up over his last few strides and put his left index finger to his … 
By ZEINA KARAM, AP - 3 hours ago BEIRUT (AP) -- Clashes between government troops and rebels raged Thursday in opposition bastions of besieged Aleppo as President Bashar Assad's key state backer Iran hosted a gathering of countries for talks on how to … 
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Thursday announced that his office is filing criminal charges against four members of former Democratic Rep. Thad McCotter's congressional staff. The accusations relate to alleged fraud surrounding nominating … 
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The Curiosity rover has returned another postcard from Mars -- the first 360-degree color view from Gale Crater. Since landing Sunday night, NASA's six-wheel rover has been sending home a trickle of pictures, beginning with … 
Levi Aron pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old boy from the insular Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, whose disappearance while walking home from camp and the ghastly discovery of his dismembered remains … 
Mitt Romney secured the GOP presidential nomination in spite of the health care law he passed in Massachusetts. That legislation, which mandated people buy insurance, was the basis for the federal law that the candidate has pledged to move toward … 
HEFEI, China -- The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of the deposed political leader Bo Xilai, began here on Thursday morning and came to an end seven hours later, with officials saying that the defendant and an accomplice had all but confessed to … 
(AP) MILWAUKEE – Sikhs are returning to a US temple for the first time since the shootings that killed six worshippers and left three people critically wounded. Inderjeet Singh Dhillon, a community leader at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, … 
(AP) LONDON – Claressa Shields won the first middleweight gold medal in women's Olympic boxing, a dominant victory by an exuberant American teenager who danced, brawled and even stuck out her tongue. Irish lightweight Katie Taylor and British flyweight … 
* Army gunners may be softening up rebels before assault * Doubts grow that army has enough motivated men for ground attack * Prospect of outside intervention may be staying Assad's hand By Hadeel Al Shalchi and William Maclean ALEPPO/LONDON, …