Heavy rains in Missouri lead to flooding, airport closure

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• Heavy rains in Missouri lead to flooding, airport closure
• Human cannonball dies as act goes awry
• Judge orders NFL owners to lift lockout
• Southwest probe eyes paint, rivet holes
• FAA fires a third sleeping controller
• Syria cracks down; U.S. mulls sanctions
• Key piece in regional Rubik's Cube
• Opinion: Drones won't win in Libya
• 5 voices: Next after 'Arab Spring'?
• Taliban: Hundreds tunnel out of jail

Heavy rains in Missouri lead to flooding, airport closure Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT Missouri's governor ordered the state's National Guard to help combat rising rivers as areas braced for what the National Weather Service said could be record flooding.

Human cannonball dies as act goes awry Posted: 25 Apr 2011 02:25 PM PDT A man who was taking part in a human cannonball show in Detling, England, was fatally injured Monday when the event failed to go off as planned, Kent police said.

Judge orders NFL owners to lift lockout Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT A federal judge ruled in favor of NFL players, issuing an injunction that ordered the league's owners to lift their lockout. The league says it will seek an immediate stay.

Southwest probe eyes paint, rivet holes Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:03 PM PDT Investigators have zeroed in on several clues to why the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines B-737 ruptured on April 1.

FAA fires a third sleeping controller Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT An air traffic controller at Seattle's Boeing Field has been fired for twice falling asleep on duty, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.

Syria cracks down; U.S. mulls sanctions Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:37 PM PDT Syria has launched a bloody crackdown in the city of Daraa, and the U.S. is threatening sanctions. At the U.N., a draft statement condemning the violence is being circulated, a diplomat says.

Key piece in regional Rubik's Cube Posted: 25 Apr 2011 03:11 PM PDT Henry Kissinger once said: "The Arabs can't make war without Egypt; and they can't make peace without Syria." It was a back-handed tribute to Syria's consistently hard line against Israel and its critical geographical position in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls "a rough neighborhood."

Opinion: Drones won't win in Libya Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:37 AM PDT Mary Ellen O'Connell says drones won't accomplish U.S. objectives or bring peace to Libya.

5 voices: Next after 'Arab Spring'? Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:50 PM PDT It all happened so fast.

Taliban: Hundreds tunnel out of jail Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:30 PM PDT Hundreds of inmates, many of them insurgent fighters, slipped out of a southern Afghanistan prison early Monday through a nearly quarter-mile tunnel dug beneath the compound from the outside.

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