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Climate impacts ‘overwhelming’ –…
The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned. Scientists and officials meeting in Japan say the document is the most…
Washington mudslide missing revised down…
The number of people missing from last week's Washington state mudslide has been revised down substantially from 90 to 30, the authorities say. Read More...…
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattles Los Angeles
(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck suburban Los Angeles on Friday evening, rattling a wide swath of Southern California, breaking water mains in a nearby community and prompting Disneyland…
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes near Los Angeles
(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck near Los Angeles on Friday, rattling a wide swath of Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Read More..…
Search for lost Malaysian jet shifts significantly…
(Reuters) - An international air and sea taskforce hunting for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was re-directed on Friday to an area 1,100 km (685 miles) north of where they have been…
Immigration Reform: House Dems File Discharge…
A discharge petition launched Wednesday by House Democrats to demand a vote on comprehensive immigration reform is certain to fail, but it returned the issue to the spotlight ahead of the November…
Weather frustrates hunt for missing Malaysian jet…
(Reuters) - High winds and icy weather halted the air search on Thursday for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet presumed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, just as new satellite images emerged…
Malaysian jet debris hunt steps up, black box…
(Reuters) - U.S. equipment designed to detect black box signals arrived in Australia on Wednesday, as searchers stepped up efforts to find some trace of a Malaysian airliner thought to have crashed 18…
Chinese families clash with police, slam Malaysia…
(Reuters) - Dozens of angry relatives of passengers on a lost Malaysian jetliner clashed with police in Beijing on Tuesday, accusing the Southeast Asian country of "delays and deception" a day after…
Malaysia says missing plane crashed in Indian…
(Reuters) - Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared over two weeks ago en route to Beijing, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak…
French satellite image also shows possible plane…
(Reuters) - New French satellite images show possible debris from a missing Malaysian airliner deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia said on Sunday, adding to growing signs that the plane may…
Girl spent months harboring secret, fearing she…
Authorities say an Ohio mother used ‘re-homing’ to keep allegations of sexual abuse from coming to light MARYSVILLE, Ohio - On an Internet forum where parents sought takers for adopted children they…
Possible debris off Australia a 'credible…
(Reuters) - Aircraft and ships ploughed through dire weather on Thursday in search of objects floating in remote seas off Australia that Malaysia's government called a "credible lead" in the…
Missing Malaysian jet most likely in southern…
(Reuters) - Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the…
Plane search spans Asia, but investigation shows…
Reuters) - China deployed 21 satellites to scour its territory for a missing Malaysian jetliner, while Australia said it had drastically narrowed its sector of the search area but was still looking in…