The Sunday morning launch of space shuttle Endeavour was called off after the weather turned cloudy. NASA has rescheduled lift-off for early morning Monday.
Light, folksy, and full of jabs against President Obama and the Democrats in Washington, Sarah Palin’s tea party speech in Nashville, Tenn., marked a possible milestone for her future presidential plans. But will the tea party movement help or hurt her plans in the long run?
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran’s atomic energy agency to begin producing a special form of uranium that could move the country closer to possessing fuel usable in nuclear weapons.
AP - Crews waded through thigh-high mud to check for gas leaks and survey damage in the foothills north of Los Angeles Sunday as evacuated residents waited to find out if they could return to their homes and start digging out.
AP - Minivans piled high with mattresses and clothing lined up at checkpoints Sunday as hundreds of civilians fled a Taliban-controlled area ahead of a planned NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan.
A heat wave in Vancouver, British Columbia is forcing organizers for the 2010 Winter Olymipcs to truck in snow. Cypress Mountain, on the city's outskirts, is hosting the freestyle skiing and snowboarding compeittions.
To borrow a phrase from counter-terrorist parlance, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged plot to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day was a "game changer."
As a reluctance to introduce body scanners at airports eases, two countries deploying them nationwide this month include Britain, reportedly a key setting for the Nigerian student's radicalization, and the Netherlands, where Mr. Abdulmutallab passed through undetected before boarding a flight to the United States.
But ardent opposition to them – including in the ranks of Europe's bureaucratic elite – may yet frustrate their international rollout. Beyond campaigners who worry about supposed health risks or view them as the digital equivalent of a strip search, many European aviation-security experts remain unconvinced of the cost benefits.
At least 11 people were injured in an explosion at a Connecticut power plant, a hospital official says. The gas-fired plant was in a "testing phase" and was set to go online later this year.
President Mahmoud AhAmadinejad ordered Iran's atomic chief on Sunday to enrich uranium to 20 percent, in a fresh challenge to Western powers bidding to rein in Tehran's galloping nuclear drive.