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 - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says that 207 people died in the powerful quake that devastated part of central Italy, and 15 people remain missing.
AP - Barack Obama wrapped up his first foreign trip as president with a request of the world: Look past his nation's stereotypes and flaws. "You will find a partner and a friend in the United States of America," he declared Tuesday.
The body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was found in luggage submerged in a pond on a dairy farm near her California home, authorities said. Police did not identify a suspect, or release a cause of death. The girl's family is devastated, said police spokesman Tony Sheneman. "They have just experienced the unimaginable."
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.
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.