Olympic training helped end siege
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Training received by police before the Olympic Games helped end the Athens bus hijacking, a minister says.
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BESLAN, Russia - A respected pediatrician negotiated through the night to end a standoff with militants who threatened to blow up a school they seized 24 hours before with about 350 hostages, including children, trapped inside.    Crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news of their loved ones as the crisis entered its second day Thursday with no sign of a resolution...
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens released five of the captives. Police are in negotiations to free the remaining hostages, a spokeswoman said.
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Ceremonies mark the end of mourning in the North Ossetian town of Beslan for victims of the school siege.
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MOSCOW - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing three fellow attackers - two by detonating the explosives they had strapped to their bodies.    Two days later, the attackers were moving the explosives they rigged around the gym where hundreds of hostages were held, and a bomb went off accidentally...
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At least five of the suspects in a terror plot disrupted last week in Germany received training at camps in Pakistan.
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China's military has established a special unit for next year's Olympics that is trained to counter threats such as terror attacks, state media reported Thursday.
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US and Iraqi forces captured the Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday after fierce fighting with Sunni militants. The forces later described the operation as a successful first step in a major push to wrest key
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All the action from the finale to the Athens Olympics.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces dropped a pair of 2,000-pound bombs early yesterday morning on a bunker complex believed to be an insurgent training facility on the southern edge of this city, where the most dedicated and best trained rebel fighters are making a last stand.
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The &quot;Win One for Mia and the Gang&quot; speech US women&#39;s soccer coach April Heinrichs delivered before Monday&#39;s Olympic semifinal match got the job done.
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ATHENS, Greece - Earlier this year, Matt Emmons discovered someone had sabotaged his rifles. Whoever did it might have helped him win a gold medal. Using a gun loaned to him by a training partner back home, Emmons won the 50-meter prone ...
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Greek police disclosed Thursday that they received a bomb threat before the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, but chose not to evacuate the stadium. The threat turned out to be a hoax, like more than 80 other bomb threats that kept officials busy during the games.
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A daylong hostage siege ended here early Thursday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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After months of haggling over Natoâs role in Iraq, the alliance answered a plea from the US by scraping together a force of 300 to help train Iraqi security forces.
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"The med techs have experienced some pretty harrowing experiences last year providing care under fire ... and having to actually do those things that medics are trained to do - provide life-saving treatment in combat conditions"  (CP) - Six Canadian army medics are bringing their hands-on experience in Afghanistan to a military training exercise on the edge of the Baltic Sea where 1,700 NATO troops are sharing their battlefield skills.The two-week training operation at the Lithuanian army base of Klaipeda is called Amber Hope. It involves personnel from 10 NATO countries, including Canada, Germany, Poland, Finland and the United States.Maj. John Crook, Canada's senior representative at the exercise, says he and his five colleagues from 1 Field Ambulance at Edmonton Garrison, all served in Afghanistan recently. Read more
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The IOC has a word of advice for organizers of the 2008 Olympics &#151; prepare. Determined to avoid a repeat of the construction delays that threatened the Athens Games, Olympic officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday.