Residents evacuate as volcano spews ashes in Ecuador

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• Residents evacuate as volcano spews ashes in Ecuador
• Sony: Hacker stole PlayStation users' info
• Syria rejects call for independent probe
• Witness: Fighting seethes near Misrata
• 51 hostages rescued in Mexican border city
• Japan's irradiated waters: How worried should we be?
• Afghanistan recaptures 65 inmates
• A top insurgent in Afghanistan killed
• Jimmy Carter in N. Korea to push for talks with South

Residents evacuate as volcano spews ashes in Ecuador Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:05 PM PDT Authorities in Ecuador closed schools and evacuated residents in areas near a volcano Tuesday after ashes spewing from its crater fell on homes and farms, state media reported.

Sony: Hacker stole PlayStation users' info Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT A hacker has obtained the personal information of PlayStation Network account holders and subscribers of the Qriocity streaming service, Sony said in a message to customers Tuesday.

Syria rejects call for independent probe Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:05 PM PDT The United Nations Security Council could take up the issue of alleged human rights abuses in Syria on Tuesday, a day after witnesses said thousands of troops infiltrated the heart of the country's recent protests and carried out a bloody crackdown.

Witness: Fighting seethes near Misrata Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:50 PM PDT Fighting battered the besieged seaside city of Misrata Tuesday as bombs -- presumably from NATO warplanes -- shook the ground after pro-government forces launched what rebel officials said was their most aggressive attack so far on the port.

51 hostages rescued in Mexican border city Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:14 AM PDT Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country's public security ministry said Tuesday.

Japan's irradiated waters: How worried should we be? Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:59 AM PDT Twenty-five years ago, I was a Ph.D. student here in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studying the fate of fallout in the North Atlantic from nuclear weapons testing, when an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant released large quantities of radioactive materials into the surrounding environment. My colleagues and I immediately joined other scientists tracking these radioactive contaminants, which in my case focused on the Black Sea, the closest ocean to the accident site.

Afghanistan recaptures 65 inmates Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:31 AM PDT Afghan authorities said Tuesday they have recaptured 65 of the more than 400 inmates who slipped out of a southern Afghanistan prison a day earlier through a nearly quarter-mile tunnel dug beneath the compound.

A top insurgent in Afghanistan killed Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:21 AM PDT A top al Qaeda leader regarded as the "number two overall targeted insurgent" in Afghanistan has been killed in a coalition airstrike this month, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.

Jimmy Carter in N. Korea to push for talks with South Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:23 AM PDT Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and three other former heads of state arrived in North Korea Tuesday, as part of the latest diplomatic effort to restart talks between the North and South, state media reported.

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