The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross is pressing Syrian authorities to allow aid workers greater access to detainees and civilians endangered by the country's conflict.

A stroll on the Oscars red carpet or peek in the press room turns up a symphony of languages, as international crews beam the Academy Awards to home audiences. Lyndsay Duncombe reports.

The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press.