Police in Germany Stop Nazi Model Airplane Plot

Police in Germany say they have foiled a plot by neo Nazis to use model airplanes as bombs.

They were conducting a raid of a neo Nazi meeting, when the plot and planes were found.

Three people have been arrested for their parts in the plot.

Officials say that the plotters were planning to use the planes to attack rival political rallies.

Syria Agrees to Sign Chemical Weapons Convention

Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem announced that his country has decided to agree to a Russian proposal.

Under the proposal Syria will stop making chemical weapons and open up current stock piles to international inspection.

They will also sign the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Syria has agreed to do all this in order to avoid a possible strike against it, by western nations.

US President Obama has led a call for strikes against Syria for supposedly attacking their own people with chemical weapons.

The attack has been completely denied by the Syrian regime, nor has any proof that they were responsible been given.

Protests Erupt Across Turkey After 1 Killed

Thousands of people protested in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, on Tuesday.

The national protests were set off after the death of a protester in Armutlu.

Police blocked protesters' paths and fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons into the masses.

In some places protesters erected barricades and threw bottles, bricks, stones and other objects at officers.

Security forces have surrounded any such barricaded areas, but have not been able to force their way into some.

The government has warned that it will call in the military if necessary.

Colorado's Recall Votes Take Place on Tuesday

Morse, left, Giron, right

Two recall elections take place in Colorado, on Tuesday.

Senate President John Morse, of Colorado Springs, and Senator Angela Giron, of Pueblo, are facing recall challenges.

Both were big supporters and key in the passage of restrictive gun laws, that many Coloradans feel are unConstitutional.

Over twenty-one thousand have already voted in the Giron recall, as Pueblo County began early voting on August 30.

El Paso County began early voting, on Thursday, and nearly ten thousand have voted over Morse.

Already there have been some accusations of voter fraud.

Two other state senators were threatened with recall, but only the two received enough signatures to be validated and forced to a vote.

100 Homes Evacuated by 4,000 Acre Mount Diablo Fire in California

One hundred homes have been evacuated due to a fire near Clayton, California.

The Mount Diablo Fire began Sunday afternoon and within twenty-four hours had burned four thousand acres.

Two firefighters have taken minor injuries, while battling the flames.

Seven hundred firefighters, five helicopters, and two tankers are battling the blaze.

They have achieved twenty percent containment.

Winds have pushed smoke into the Bay Area, causing smoke advisories to be issued.

Texas Standoff Lasts 9 Hours After Officer Shot in the Head

A standoff lasted nine hours in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday.

It began about 08:00 CDT when police received a disturbance call at a Motel 8.

When officers arrived shots were fired out the door at them, striking one of them in the head.

SWAT teams surrounded the building and eventually talked the gunmen into surrendering, around 17:00 CDT.

The wounded officer was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center, with non life threatening injuries.

Kansas Schools Locked Down by Threat

Shawnee Mission schools, in Kansas, were locked down, on Monday, due to a "vague threat".

The district received a threat that there would be a shooting outside an unspecified school.

As a precaution they locked all exterior doors and canceled any activities that couldn't be held indoors.

No classes were canceled and students were released at the normal time.

Police kept an extra eye on school grounds, but no incidents occurred.

Bus Crash Leaves 38 Dead in Guatemala

Thirty-eight people were killed and forty-six injured in a bus crash in Guatemala.

Monday's crash happened about forty miles northwest of Guatemala City.

The bus went off a cliff and fell nearly seven hundred feet.

Authorities are working to investigate what caused the accident.

Weather is not believed to have been a factor.

Officials have stated that the bus was over capacity.

Labor Loses in Norway's Election

Solberg casts her ballot

Norwegians hit the polls on Monday and knocked the Labor party from running things.

As a party, Labor still holds the most seats.

However, Labor's coalition only managed to maintain seventy-one of the one hundred and sixty-nine seats.

The opposition is expected to form a coalition behind Erna Solberg, which would make her the first conservative prime minister since 1990.

Jens Stoltenberg had maintained the spot for the last eight years, as the Labor party ruled the government.

Solberg's Conservative party ran on lowering taxes and loosening government control, both of which are popular amongst the people.

The Conservative party saw the most gain in seats, while all of the parties in Labor's coalition lost seats.

10,000 Rally to Demand Runoff Election in Moscow

More than ten thousand rallied in Moscow, on Monday, to protest the result of Sunday's mayoral election.

They are demanding that there be a runoff election between Alexei Navalny and Sergei Sobyanin.

Sobyanin, who is backed by president Putin, won the election with just over fifty percent of the vote.

Navalny, an anti corruption campaigner, has accused the government of rigging the election, to ensure Putin's man won.