The family and fiance of British doctor Karen Woo, who was killed with nine colleagues in Afghanistan, say she was "loving and caring" and a "true hero".
Russia wildfires have now pushed carbon monoxide levels in Moscow to 6.5 times the allowable level and the concentration of other unspecified toxins to 'up to 9 times' acceptable limits, according to Russia's health ministry.
Colombia's new conservative President Juan Manuel Santos also struck a conciliatory tone as he was sworn in Saturday, despite the recent bellicose rhetoric from Venezuela's leftist leader, Hugo Chávez.
The Minerals Management Service has been ridiculed as a pawn of the oil industry it was meant to oversee, and the Gulf Coast office has drawn particular scorn.
In their bid to recapture the House, Republicans hope to mine Democratic seats from districts that picked John McCain over Barack Obama in the last presidential race.
AP - Ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd has settled allegations of sexual harassment lodged against him by a female contract worker for HP, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.
AP - Floods and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery Sunday as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in northwestern China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country's worst-ever flooding.
AP - A former secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department says she was interrogated at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel last month.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro warned today of imminent nuclear war and said the world's fate was in President Barack Obama's hands, as he addressed the Cuban National Assembly for the first time since falling ill four years ago.
Bibi, the young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband, is traveling to the United States in an attempt to have her face reconstructed.
At least 270 new wildfires have been reported in heatwave-stricken Russia in the past 24 hours as intense smog continues to disrupt life in Moscow, officials say.
At least 127 people were dead, 1,300 missing and 45,000 evacuated after landslides blocked a river in China's Gansu province. Floodwaters carrying rocks and mud collapsed multistory buildings and swept over houses.
At least 10 people were killed in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as creeks and rivers swollen by days of heavy rains burst their banks, destroying buildings, dams and bridges, officials said.
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