Warren E. Buffett?s deal for an industrial conglomerate after just two weeks of talks suggests that he is finally finding some acquisitions he can get excited about.
A push by medical centers to turn nuclear particle accelerators into weapons against cancer reflects the best and worst of America?s health system, experts say.
AP - As the faithful marked Christmas Day, political and religious leaders called for peace and reconciliation amid flickers of hope in places long plagued by conflict.
AP - A tiger that mauled a zookeeper last year escaped from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two others before police shot it dead, authorities said.
AP - Hours of heavy rain triggered landslides Wednesday that killed at least 51 people in western Indonesia, a rescue official, while floods inundated other parts of the country.
An escaped tiger attacked and killed a zoo patron Tuesday in a cafe at the San Francisco Zoo, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department told CNN. Two others were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, she added.
The bodies of two Americans and a Panamanian pilot -- who were among four people missing after their plane disappeared in a mountainous area of Panama -- were found Christmas Day, officials in the country said.
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