U.N. Security Council ambassadors on Saturday debated a draft resolution backing an Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down. The move came as activists said more than 200 people were killed in the city of Homs.

The current standoff with Iran is similar to the 'fateful' period before the 1967 Arab-Israel war, when Israel launched a preemptive strike, said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

A man who was declared suicidal by a New Mexico jail and alleges he was then left to rot in solitary confinement for nearly two years is just one of many former inmates who say they were denied essential mental health services while incarcerated at that detention center, which like others across the country has struggled with how to treat the mentally ill.

Prosecutors plan to file two more murder charges against an ex-Marine accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California.