Laborers from across the country have returned to their native Sichuan Province, where many elderly Chinese have refused to leave devastated - and still at risk - villages.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he was hopeful "a turning point" had been reached in Myanmar's cyclone crisis as an international conference convened to pledge funds for some 2.4 million survivors.
AP - A slow-moving storm packing tornadoes and hail battered rural Oklahoma on Saturday, destroying several buildings, tearing up trees and tossing a mobile home onto a highway. The bodies of two storm victims were found in Kansas.
AP - Barack Obama told veterans Saturday that he can't understand why Republican John McCain opposes legislation that would provide college scholarships to people who have served in the U.S. military.
The leader of Colombia's largest leftist rebel group, FARC, is dead, a spokesman for the nation's defense ministry said Saturday. Pedro Antonio Marin, known as Manuel Marulanda Vilez and nicknamed Tirofijo, is believed to have died of a heart attack. "He must be in hell," ministry spokesman Juan Manuel Santos told Semana magazine.
As the color guard lowered rifles, the smell of bitter smoke drifted over the family and friends of Vietnam veteran Ellis Hale. Sherry Hale clutched to her chest the American flag that covered her husband's casket. Scenes like this are being repeated at a record rate across the United States as veterans are buried in the country's 125 national cemeteries.