Asian stocks fell and the South Korea’s won weakened as reports signaled slowing global economic growth and Hewlett-Packard Co. forecast profit that missed estimates. Oil dropped from a nine-month high after a report showed U.S. stockpiles increased.

The outpouring of support continues for Moline's Animal Aid Humane Society. It's just over three weeks since the tragic fire where a dozen cats died and many escaped.

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. The barrages marked an intensification of a nearly three-week offensive to crush resistance in Homs, one of the focal points of a nationwide uprising ...

Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling.