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.
Senator Barack Obama delivered the commencement speech at Wesleyan University in place of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
AP - A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China on Sunday, killing two people and straining recovery efforts from the country's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 480 others were injured.
AP - Al-Qaida fighters and other Sunni insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Mosul in the face of a U.S.-Iraqi sweep, fleeing to desert areas further south, an Iraqi commander said Sunday. He vowed the forces will not allow them to regroup.
AP - Members of the Rolling Thunder motorcycling group roared into town for a White House visit Sunday, where they presented President Bush with his own cowhide vest jacket and pushed for increased veterans benefits.
Sgt. Matthew Ryan Soper, known as a larger-than-life character, died in 2007 on his second tour in Iraq. "He died because he was in the military, but the military saved his life," says his brother Adam, one of the iReporters sharing memories of loved ones lost in battle.
Despite the success of NASA's Spirit and Opportunity missions, directors remained anxious Sunday over the first-ever landing of a probe near Mars' north pole to find signs of life.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said today some people are using her controversial reference to Robert Kennedy's assassination to suggest that she meant something "completely unthinkable." Her campaign accused the opposition of "inflaming" the situation, but the Obama camp said it was not trying to "stir the issue up."