ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Authorities say they're following leads after a car full of men pulled up next to an Anchorage police officer and one of the men opened fire, shooting the officer multiple times.
Police say the shooting early Saturday left 47-year-old Officer Jason Allen with serious injuries, but he is expected to recover.
Lt. Dave Parker said Allen remained hospitalized Sunday but was visiting with family members.
Allen was sitting in his parked cruiser in a residential neighborhood near downtown, working on an unrelated case, when the dark-colored sedan with several men inside pulled up next to his vehicle on the driver's side.
Police say a passenger fired some rounds, striking Allen as many as five times in his arms and torso.
Police believe Allen was targeted because he is a police officer.
Workers' tombs near pyramids
CAIRO -- Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new set of tombs belonging to the workers who built the great pyramids, shedding light on how the laborers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, the antiquities department said Sunday.
The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world ate meat regularly, worked in three-month shifts and were given the honor of being buried in mud brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on.
The newly discovered tombs date to Egypt's 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.) when the great pyramids were built, according to the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass.
Graves of the pyramid builders were first discovered in the area in 1990, he said, and discoveries such as these show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination.
Blast kills Marine, British reporter
LONDON -- An explosion outside a village in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. Marine and a veteran war correspondent who became the first British journalist killed in the conflict, officials said.
With the death of Sunday Mirror journalist Rupert Hamer, 18 reporters have been killed in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to figures kept by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Attacks deepen racial tensions
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Eight churches were attacked over three days amid a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims, sparking fresh political instability that is denting Malaysia's image as a moderate and stable Muslim-majority nation.
The unprecedented attacks from Friday to Sunday have set off a wave of disquiet among Malaysia's minority Christians and strained their ties with the majority Muslims. About 9 percent of Malaysia's 28 million people are Christian. Muslims make up 60 percent of the population.
The attacks are a blow to racial unity espoused by Prime Minister Najib Razak under his "1Malaysia" slogan since taking power in April, and pose a headache for him as he seeks to strengthen his ruling coalition after its losses in 2008 general elections.
-- From wire reports
