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ing against Bashar Assad began in March 2011. The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians.
• The U.N. said Saturday a team of observers was heading to the area.
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Contrasting images painted of NJ man charged in 1979 murder of New York City boy Etan Patz
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The anniversary of the day 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school dawned with his suspected killer in police custody, but it ended with a muddled portrait of the man who confessed to strangling the little boy and dumping his body in the trash.
• A former neighbor who knew Pedro Hernandez as a teenager says he was someone you wouldn't want to cross -- a reserved but "pent-up" young man. But the pastor of his church says Hernandez, now 51, is simply a shy and timid man who faithfully attends Sunday services.
• Now on suicide watch at Bellevue Hospital, Hernandez was arraigned Friday via video link from a hospital ward on a charge of murder. His court-appointed lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, told the judge that Hernandez is bipolar, schizophrenic and has a "history of hallucinations, both visual and auditory."
• Hernandez, who was a teenage convenience store clerk at the time Etan went missing, now lives in Maple Shade, N.J. He was arrested Thursday after making a surprise confession in a case that has bedeviled investigators for 33 years. Hernandez told police he lured Etan into the basement of a convenience store with a promise of a soda, choked him to death, then stuffed his body in a bag and left it with trash on the street a block away.
• The legal proceeding lasted only about four minutes. Expressionless, wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, Hernandez didn't speak or enter a plea.
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Protests in Myanmar against power outages test the patience of government and activists
• BANGKOK (AP) -- Protests in Myanmar over persistent power shortages have provided a test of how the country's elected but military-backed government will respond to rising expectations sparked by the past year's democratic reforms.
• Small demonstrations over the last week in Myanmar's two largest cities and several towns could be seen as an indicator of the new openness under President (Continued on page 32)
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