Sharky's Notebook

Authorities have begun an investigation after a threatening message was found scrawled on the lavatory mirror of a Thai Airways plane, the Transportation Security Administration said.

Eighteen people died in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a shoe factory in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, police said.

The pastor of a Florida church planning to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 says the church has "made up its mind" amid condemnation and fears the event could endanger U.S. troops.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji Islands, Wednesday at 4:13 a.m. (12:13 p.m. ET Tuesday), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The rescue of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine will only be the beginning of the miners' ordeal, NASA officials told Chilean authorities during a recent visit.

Hewlett-Packard has filed a lawsuit against Mark Hurd, its former chief executive, to block him from joining Oracle as co-president.

The European Commission is looking into France's expulsion of more than 8,000 ethnic Roma, commonly referred to as gypsies, the commission's president told CNN Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Jewish New Year greeting he promised to strive for a peace agreement by this time next year but said there is no guarantee of success.

An explosion apparently targeting a police barracks in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday left at least seven people dead, including two children, a Kohat district police official said.

Tropical Storm Hermine is expected to cross into Texas on Tuesday after striking the Mexican coast about 40 miles south of the U.S. border Monday night, the National Hurricane Center reported.

A Wiltshire, England, police sergeant was sentenced Tuesday to serve six months in prison for assaulting a 57-year-old woman in custody two years ago in an incident caught on the station's closed-circuit television system.

Detectives are investigating the discovery of two "mummified" babies found wrapped in 1930s newspaper in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building.

Police expect to question Prime Minister David Cameron's top communications advisor as part of an investigation into the hacking of phones at the newspaper the aide used to edit, a top British police official said Tuesday.

North Korea has released a South Korean fishing boat and its crew, whom it seized last month, the South's Coast Guard said Tuesday.

More than 230 civilians in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu have died in fighting over the past two weeks between Somali transitional government forces and Al-Shabaab militants, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.

Officials say about 40 people were buried in two landslides here. Four of them were Carlos Coti's family members.

Billionaire investor George Soros will donate $100 million to Human Rights Watch, the organization announced Tuesday.

Thousands of workers across France were staging a one-day strike Tuesday to protest government plans to raise the retirement age.

The United Nations has established more than a thousand health clinics across Pakistan in the wake of widespread flooding, a U.N. official said.