SANAA, Yemen — A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years.
NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. on Thursday to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they aren’t ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, most of them in New York.
Staining an outdoor building at Recreation Unlimited. Painting a room at the Park Avenue Senior Center. Cleaning the Arts Castle kitchen. Restoring the trail at Camp Lazarus. These activities are just some from a long list of volunteer opportunities available from 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 22 for Delaware County’s Make a Difference Day, which is part of a national day of helping others.
AMES, Iowa — GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney and seven rivals trying to emerge from the pack castigated President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and the debt ceiling debate Thursday night in a debate shadowed by the latest Republican to join the field, Texas Gov. Rick Perry. “I’m not going to eat Barack Obama’s dog food,” Romney said when asked whether he would have vetoed the compromise legislation that Congress gave to the president that raised the debt ceiling. “What he served up is not what I would have as president of the United States.”