Sarah Shourd, one of the three American hikers who have been detained in Iran for more than a year, will be released "very soon," an Iranian official told ABC News today.
Afghan insurgents distribute pamphlets about Pastor Terry Jones' plan to burn korans. Presidents of Pakistan, Indonesia and India ask the U.S. to halt the bonfire.
U.S. Marines stormed a German-owned commercial vessel that had been captured by Somali pirates, in what appears to be the first U.S.-led military boarding off the coast of East Africa.