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Thousands flee Isaac's floods
New Orleans' flood defences appeared to withstand Hurricane Isaac, but thousands of people to the north and south of the city had to be evacuated or rescued...
Hurricane Isaac sidesteps New Orleans
Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on Wednesday, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages that had few...
100-year-old drives into children
A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after...
McCartney 'key' to Motown legend
A damaged 1877 Steinway grand piano used by Motown artists during the record label's "Hitsville USA" heyday has been restored, thanks to a little...
Marines on Guatemala drug patrol
A team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala's western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central...
Isaac lashes New Orleans
Hurricane Isaac lashed New Orleans as it approached the storied city Wednesday morning exactly seven years after the devastating Katrina, knocking out power to...
No Easy Day for Osama bin Laden
A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether...
Isaac still a flood threat
Hurricane Isaac is moving slowly inland toward New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. There is still a threat of a dangerous storm surge that could bring...
Hurricane Isaac makes landfall
Hurricane Isaac raked the Louisiana coast and headed for a shuttered New Orleans late Tuesday, with brutal timing that made up for much of what it lacked in...
Hurricane Isaac nears New Orleans
Isaac turned into a full-blown Category 1 hurricane Tuesday as it rolled toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, where residents in four states left boarded-up homes and...
Steward logs over 200 million air miles
A flight attendant is landing in the Guinness World Records book after spending 63 years moving about the cabin. Ron Akana, 83, worked his last route over the...
Republicans nominate Romney
Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman as...
UBC student attacked by grizzly
When Julia Stafford returns to class at the University of British Columbia this September, she'll have a real-life tale to tell about surviving a bear...
will.i.am rockin' from Mars...really
Will.i.am has premiered his new single from Mars. The NASA rover Curiosity beamed to Earth his new song "Reach for the Stars" on Tuesday in the first...
Romney arrives at convention
Mitt Romney was crowned the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday at the party's national convention, but his rare moment in the sun following a...
Romney nomination now official
TAMPA, Fla. - Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney on Tuesday, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and millionaire...
Pedophile's ex-wife goes to convent
One of Belgium's most despised criminals, the accomplice and former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left...
Isaac now a Category 1 hurricane
Isaac became a hurricane Tuesday that could flood the coasts of four states with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans, where residents hunkered...
Fire extinguished at Venezuela refinery
All fires have been extinguished at Venezuela's biggest oil refinery after raging for more than three days following a deadly explosion, officials said...
Rodent-borne illness kills 2 campers
A second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting Yosemite National Park earlier this summer and park officials are warned past visitors...