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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters crashed into the water off the coast of the east African nation of Djibouti late Friday. Two of the 12 people aboard the choppers were rescued and the search continued for the 10 others, the Pentagon said. Pentagon officials said there was no indication that hostile fire played any role in the crash of the two CH-53E helicopters. Each of the  ...

SOUTHERN LEYTE, Philippines (CNN) -- As many as 1,800 people are missing and feared dead after a massive mudslide buried a remote village in the southern Philippine island of Leyte. One day after a rain-soaked mountain turned into a deadly wall of mud, only 56 of the village's 1,875 residents had been found alive, Leyte's provincial governor, Rosette Lerias, said Saturday. So far the official death toll stands at 35. But officials fear the remaining residents were killed when the mudslide virt ...

By Wafa Amr RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Islamist group Hamas took over as the dominant party in the Palestinian parliament on Saturday and swiftly rejected President Mahmoud Abbas's call to pursue his peacemaking efforts with Israel. The swearing-in of the parliament, elected last month, paves the way for Hamas to form a government that is on a potential collision course with Abbas and faces a boycott by major powers unless it renounces violence and its vow to destroy Israel. Israel is co ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.S. and allied forces searched on Saturday for 10 crew members still missing a day after two Marine Corps helicopters crashed off the coast of Djibouti, the hub of U.S. counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa. "We always have hope of finding survivors," U.S. military spokeswoman Major S.A. Romano told Reuters by phone from the tiny Red Sea state. Two crew members rescued by the Djiboutian military on Friday were in a stable condition, said a statement from Joint  ...

By Asim Tanveer MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Four people were wounded on Saturday when shots were fired during a protest in central Pakistan over publication of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad, police said. The shooting occurred as hundreds of protesters pelted police with stones and tried to block a road in the town of Chiniot in the central province of Punjab, a local police official told Reuters. He said it was unclear whether police or protesters fired the shots. The official sa ...

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of hunters gathered across Britain on Saturday to gallop through fields and forests a year after the government imposed a ban on their age-old custom of killing foxes with packs of dogs. Hunts across the country have come up with a series of ways of avoiding the ban and organisers say the sport is now more popular than ever. Supporters have called on the government to scrap the law, saying it does not work and never will. The main pro-huntin ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian militants who staged a series of attacks on oil facilities on Saturday identified nine foreign hostages they had taken as three Americans, a Briton, two Egyptians, two Thais and one Filipino. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said the employees of U.S. oil services company Willbros were taken in an attack on a barge known as "Barge 318".

By Wafa Amr RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hamas took over as the dominant party in the Palestinian parliament on Saturday and named its leader Ismail Haniyeh as the Palestinian Authority's next prime minister. The new parliament paves the way for Hamas to form a government amid calls by major world powers for a boycott of the militant Islamist group over its official stance, which calls for the destruction of Israel. "Hamas has decided that Ismael Haniyeh will be the prime minister for the  ...

By Wafa Amr RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hamas will take control of the Palestinian parliament on Saturday, paving the way for it to form the next government amid calls by major world powers for a boycott of the militant Islamist group. The sweeping victory of Hamas in last month's parliamentary election has put it on a collision course with President Mahmoud Abbas's peace policies while Israel is mulling tough new restrictions to pressure a Hamas-led government. At Saturday's swearing-in  ...

By Matthew Cronin SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Top seed Andy Roddick crushed German Bjorn Phau 6-3 6-2 on Friday to set up a tantalising last four clash with teenager Andy Murray at the SAP Open. Murray beat Robin Soderling 4-6 7-5 6-4 in a fiery quarter-final. Lleyton Hewitt also advanced with a 7-6 6-2 victory over fellow Australian Wayne Arthurs, setting up a semi-final with American veteran Vincent Spadea. "My first percentage was up where I wanted it to be and it totally changed the dynamic of t ...