Early Tuesday, the death toll had risen to 179, but the estimated number of homeless was lowered to 17,000, officials said, as many residents took shelter with friends and family.
AP - Rescuers worked frantically in this central Italian city early Tuesday, scooping through piles of rubble with their hands in the search for survivors after the country's deadliest earthquake in nearly three decades.
AP - Seeking to give America a fresh start with the Muslim world, President Barack Obama is finishing a two-day stay in Turkey with an appeal to Turkish youth.
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is recommending a broad overhaul of military spending that would start almost immediately and slash giant weapons programs and the private sector jobs that go with them.
The chase began with a stolen plane from a Canadian flight school, meandered through three states with U.S. fighter jets hot on the trail and forced the evacuation of the state capitol in Wisconsin. It ended about seven hours later, in a Midwestern town of 360 people, inside a general store off a narrow, dirt road -- with the suspect sipping on a Gatorade, waiting to be cuffed.
Authorities said they found the body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in luggage in a dairy-farm pond near her California home. The girl had been missing since March 27 from her home in Tracy, California. Police did not identify a suspect.
The suspect in last week's deadly shooting at a New York immigrant center believed he had been harassed for years by undercover police officers, according to a letter received by a local TV station and purportedly written by that suspect, Jiverly Wong. Police said they were studying the letter to determine its authenticity. The package also contained photos of Wong with two handguns, his gun permit and his driver's license.