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Sandy Dahl, who became one of the tragic faces of 9/11 after her husband was killed while piloting United Flight 93, died Friday.

Syrian government forces pounded the central province of Homs on Friday, killing more than 50 people including children, opposition groups said.

The two-story tan house on East Linwood Avenue is unremarkable for suburban Maple Shade, just outside Camden, New Jersey. The man who lived there with his wife and teenage daughter blended in, too.

A gunman suffered two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head Friday after freeing hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, authorities said.

A brush fire in Orlando about five miles from Disney World prompted authorities to bar traffic along a major highway through the central Florida city, a police spokeswoman said.

Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson of California was the 1,974th U.S. death and the 3,000th overall coalition death, according to CNN's count.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.

An American Airlines passenger was restrained Friday after his flight landed in Miami, a spokeswoman for the Miami International Airport said.

China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.

Inspectors found uranium in Iran enriched up to 27%, a level that's higher than previous ones, a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report said Friday.

The private spacecraft SpaceX Dragon docked with the International Space Station today, a milestone in a new era of commercial space flight.

Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few ? as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual social world. Yet critics claim that Facebook is hastening the demise of privacy, which as the cliché goes, is already on life support.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood predicted Friday that its presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi will contest a run-off vote with former regime figure Ahmed Shafik, as counting in the country's landmark election got under way.

The captain and second officer of a container ship that ran aground last year, resulting in New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster, have been jailed for seven months.

The new French president, François Hollande, arrived in Kabul on Friday to meet with French troops stationed in the country and hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Pedro Hernandez was arraigned via video from Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, where a source said he's on suicide watch. Etan Patz, 6, vanished 33 years ago Friday.

A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.

"Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion," forecasters warn has Hurricane Bud nears Mexico's Pacific coast.

Three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.

A U.S. soldier charged with plotting to blow up troops from the nation's largest Army post has been found guilty of a battery of federal charges, prosecutors announced Thursday.