An FDA alert expands the romaine lettuce recall to companies in California and Oklahoma, although the likelihood of consumers getting contaminated lettuce now is 'remote.'

Land beneath home gives way in "gigantic crater" near Quebec. Sinkhole swallows house and three cars.

Senators grilling executives from the companies at the center of the Gulf oil spill tried to discern why fail-safe systems failed and why the spill has gotten out of hand. They got few answers.

AP - A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, killing at least 96 people. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor, Libya's transport minister said.

AP - Britain woke up to a new political era Wednesday with the first coalition government since World War II — an unlikely marriage between the Conservative Party and the left-leaning Liberal Democrats.

AP - Political patience was whittling away for BP executives who can't stop a broken underwater well from pouring oil into the Gulf where crews tried the latest solution — submerging a second containment box designed to funnel the gusher to a waiting tanker.