Tags: International Affairs

President Obama, in a news press conference to the White House Press Corps, vowed to close Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba - an unkept promise he had in his first term in office.

Syria's prime minister, Wael al-Halki, survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, underscoring the potency of the rebels in Damascus in their hopes of toppling Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Jeff Bauman, who was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon terror attack tearing his legs apart and rushed to the Boston Medical Center, provided the crucial tip to authorities. While in the intensive-care-unit, he wrote on a sheet of paper he was eye-to-eye with the terrorist. He lost both his legs below the knee once the bomb exploded near the finish line, Bloomberg News reported.