(CBS News) The situation in Syria is getting more dangerous by the hour. On Monday, the U.S. State Department closed its embassy in Damascus, saying it was vulnerable to attack. Ambassador Robert Ford and his staff are now on their way home. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been attacking protesters for eleven months. More than 5,000 Syrians are said to have been killed. President Obama karen millenhas said Assad must go. But over the weekend, Russia and China blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for him to step down. Since then, the army has stepped up attacks in Homs, shelling neighborhoods controlled by rebels. Human rights groups say several hundred people have been killed in the past three days. Assad has barred most foreign journalists, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together karen millen and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats. The audiotape of Malcolm X's 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old

karen millen dresses student Malcolm Burnley hadn't stumbled across a reference to it in an old student newspaper. He found the recording of the little-remembered visit gathering dust in the university archives. "No one had listened to this in 50 years," Burnley told the Associated Press. "There aren't many recordings of him before 1962. And this is a unique speech — it's not like others he had given before." In the May 11, 1961, speech delivered to a mostly white audience of students and some residents, Malcolm X combines blistering humor and reason to argue that blacks should not look to integrate into white society but instead must forge their own identities and culture. At the time, Malcolm X, 35, was a loyal supporter of the black separatist movement...

INDIANAPOLIS—Tom Coughlin's pinched face, ever present on the karen millen sideline during his eight seasons, gives way to a smile more often now. He'll even crack a one-liner or two. Funny how a second trip to the Super Bowl in four years can mellow a guy. In reality, though,

karen millen dressesthe 65-year-old Coughlin is still basically the same coach on the field and definitely the same man off the field. Discipline, preparedness and execution are his trademarks at the office; family, church and charity work have his attention at home. ,"He is who is he is," Keli Coughlin, the coach's daughter, said in a telephone interview Friday, two days before the Giants faced the ...

BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that NATO allies have agreed broadly to step back from the lead combat role in Afghanistan and let local forces take their place as early as next year, a shortened timetable that startled officials and members of Congress. Obama administration karen millen officials scrambled with varying degrees of clarity to explain that Panetta’s announcement en route to the NATO defense ministers’ meeting here that he hoped combat troops would move into a training and assistance role beginning in 2013 was not a policy change, but an optimistic look at the already-established timetable. Panetta said he told a meeting of his 27 NATO counterparts that he hoped Afghan...

At least 1,000 people were injured in the violence on Wednesday when soccer fans staged a pitch invasion in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, even though local team al-Masry beat visitors from Cairo, Al Ahli, Egypt's most successful club. Angry politicians karen millen denounced the lack of security at the match and blamed military leaders for allowing, or even causing, the tragedy. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that dominates parliament, saw an "invisible" hand at work. The city's streets were quiet at dawn, with hardly any police or army officers in sight. "The military council wants ...