Government officials said that some refugee camp residents had exaggerated their circumstances to attract aid and called news accounts about the deaths “one-sided.”
Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that Syria’s vice president would seek open talks with the rebels, even as regime forces were reported to be shelling the city of Homs.
With Russian scientists poised to take some samples from a deep subglacial lake in Antarctica, outlandish theories persist about what may be discovered -- including Hitler's remains.
