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Rover lands on Mars

Rover lands on Mars

Aug 5, 2012 / 10:59 pm

Curiosity Lands on Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered...

Deadly NASCAR lightning strike

Aug 5, 2012 / 8:38 pm

A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after a NASCAR race Sunday killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It...

Gunman kills 6 at Sikh temple

Aug 5, 2012 / 8:31 pm

An unidentified gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday in a rampage that left terrified congregants hiding in closets and...

Police say seven dead at Sikh temple

Police say seven dead at Sikh temple

Aug 5, 2012 / 2:05 pm

Police in Wisconsin say seven people are dead at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, including the suspected gunman. Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt says...

Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin

Aug 5, 2012 / 10:23 am

A police dispatcher in Wisconsin says there has been a shooting at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee. Oak Creek Police Department dispatcher Stephanie Uljanec...

Homeowners find little left after wildfire

Aug 5, 2012 / 6:15 am

While residents of one Oklahoma town sifted through their charred belongings Saturday to salvage what they could after a roaring wildfire that may have been...

Heavy explosions shake Syrian capital

Aug 4, 2012 / 2:03 pm

Heavy explosions shook the Syrian capital Saturday and helicopters circled overhead as rebels appeared to be renewing their offensive in the city, witnesses and...

'Snowflake' hits 220mph

Aug 4, 2012 / 2:05 am

Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record Friday evening as they flew heads-down in a massive...

NASA's Mars landing lingo

Aug 3, 2012 / 6:59 am

Fascinated by NASA's latest Mars mission and planning to tune in? Well, good luck understanding the space agency's everyday lingo, which resembles a...

Tractor used to crush cop vehicles

Aug 3, 2012 / 6:46 am

Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was...

Drought fears in India

Aug 3, 2012 / 6:00 am

Amarnath Sharma has waited weeks for rains to soak his parched rice paddies so that he can start planting. He is one of millions of farmers across India who are...

Illinois Megabus, crashes

Aug 2, 2012 / 10:40 pm

Illinois State Police say the person who died in the crash of a double-decker Megabus was a female passenger, but they have not disclosed her name or her age....

80 million fake Facebook accounts

Aug 2, 2012 / 2:08 pm

Facebook says there may be as many as 83 million false or duplicate accounts on its website. The company said in a regulatory filing this week that 8.7 per...

Rockers seek release of punk band

Rockers seek release of punk band

Aug 2, 2012 / 7:09 am

Some of Britain's leading musicians have published a letter calling for Russian officials to release a punk band that has been jailed following a protest in...

Chinese teenager kills 8 people

Aug 2, 2012 / 7:04 am

A teenager killed eight people with a knife and wounded five more in northeast China after falling out with his girlfriend, state media said Thursday. The teen...

5 feet of rain hits Taiwan

Aug 2, 2012 / 6:49 am

A typhoon inched across northern Taiwan on Thursday after already dumping up to five feet of rain that has flooded farmland, swollen rivers and paralyzed life...

No bull, no means no

Aug 1, 2012 / 10:08 pm

A bull in the mood for love damaged an Arkansas sheriff's patrol car when it tried to mount a man who was leading the animal across a yard. Authorities...

Chile not happy about happy meal toys

Aug 1, 2012 / 10:03 pm

A new law in Chile aims to take some of the fun out of fast-food by forcing McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other restaurants to stop including toys and...

Couple to remarry 48 yrs after divorce

Aug 1, 2012 / 6:59 am

They got hitched while still in their teens, divorced 20 years and four children later, and are getting remarried after nearly a half-century apart. For Lena...

He's alive? Man returns after 23 yrs.

Aug 1, 2012 / 6:53 am

For 23 years, his family in Bangladesh thought he was dead. But then an anonymous caller informed a local official in May that he was alive and in jail in...

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