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Thousands of hardline Muslims demanding new anti-blasphemy laws in Bangladesh fought running battles with police, in the capital, Dhaka, Sunday, leaving at least four people dead and more than 50 others injured.

While the American people are being bombarded every day with news reports about the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings—most of which reports are based on deliberate FBI and law-enforcement leaks spoon-fed to the news media—important lessons can be drawn from FBI terrorism cases going back 20 years, at least as far as 1993.

A Swiss pilot has landed in Phoenix in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona on the first leg of what is planned as the first cross-country flight of a completely solar-powered plane.

Al-Rustumiya, an informal settlement for displaced people on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Iran called on the region to unite against Israel after a reported attack on Syria and said it was ready to train the Damascus government's army.

Ahead of Malayasia's elections on Sunday, independent online media say they are being targeted in Internet attacks which filter content and throttle access to websites, threatening to deprive voters of their main source of independent reporting.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States is rethinking its opposition to arming Syrian rebels.

Somali families displaced at Dhobley near the Somalia-Kenya border.

South Korea says it is making progress with the North on allowing the return of its workers who remain at a suspended joint industrial zone just north of the border.