1.At least 90 aftershocks have followed yesterdays 5.4 magnitude quake in southern California. Its caused only limited damage and a few injuries, but officials say cell phone service was greatly affected. 2.Israels prime minister says he plans to re...
1. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area just before noon local time. The quake was centered in San Bernardino County, about 29 miles east-southeast of downtown LA. It was felt to the south in San Diego and it was also slightly fel...
1. Iraqi police say at least 57 people are dead and nearly 300 wounded after two separate suicide attacks. Authorities say three women were among a group of pilgrims when they blew themselves up in Baghdad. Officials also say a woman may be responsi...
1. Australia's Qantas Airlines has been ordered to urgently inspect every oxygen bottle aboard its fleet of Boeing 747s. Investigators are focusing on the idea that an oxygen cylinder might have exploded mid-flight, ripping a hole in the side of the...
1. Officials in India say more than a dozen explosions in a western city have killed 29 people and wounded scores more. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility. The explosions come a day after seven similar blasts struck another city in...
1. New home sales fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the drop was less than expected.That's raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be approaching a bottom. 2. A Qantas jumbo jet made an emer...
1. Hurricane Dolly has left behind muddy waters and downed power lines. But residents in south Texas are thankful the storm did not pack more of a wallop. Early damage estimates put losses at 750 million dollars. 2. Barack Obama draws more than 200,...
1.Hurricane Dolly has reached shore near South Padre Island in Texas. The storm has forced thousands of people into shelters on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. As it headed inland, Dolly weakened slightly to a Category 1 storm with top winds...
1. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says security in Iraq is improving. Now it's time to talk about the country's other needs. Obama was speaking in Jordan during his highly-publicized trip abroad. He says there is military progress in...
1. The Iraqi government and Barack Obama are both hoping US combat forces can leave in 2010. That's after Obama met with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But a spokesman there says any withdrawal plan depends on whether the level of violence i...
1. As he met with the president of Afghanistan, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised vigor in the fight against terrorism. Obama is on an international trip that will take him to Iraq, the Middle East and Europe. 2.Republican John...
1. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in Afghanistan. The Illinois senator arrived in Kabul as part of an official congressional delegation. His first visit to the country comes less than four months before the general election. 2. A...
1.Israel says it has arrested six men for plotting to form a terrorist network tied to al-Qaeda. Officials say one of the men wanted to target the helicopter of President Bush during a visit in January. 2.Authorities are digging through a yard in Fl...
The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can begin. A federal judge says the courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended. The trial involves Osama bin Laden's former driver. Pilots at US Airways say the carrier i...
1. Oil prices are down for a second day, more than four dollars lower on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is trading at less than 135 dollars a barrel. Yesterday prices fell nearly six and a half dollars in the biggest one-day drop in dollar te...