
Dotcom 'in tears' after Megaupload files deleted
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered ...

Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise
Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister ...

Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters. The U.S.

Obama making plans to tackle global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on ...

Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel ...

Car quality dinged by tech glitches, survey finds
Car buyers increasingly want high-tech features like voice recognition and navigation. But they're not very forgiving of the car company when those ...

AP PHOTOS: 3 little liligers cavort at Russian zoo
The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia's third-largest city, is home to a unique animal — the liliger. That's a big cat breed where the father is a lion and ...
LA to give every student an iPad; $30M order
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its ...

World Bank highlights climate-poverty link
The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens." In a report released ...

Baked Alaska: Unusual heat wave hits 49th state
A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel ...

Flood damages Austrian UNESCO heritage site
A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by the U.N.

W.Va. mine safety lab creates disasters to train
Orange flames lick at the roof of the coal mine, heat building and visibility dropping as smoke begins to fill the underground passageway. Then, with ...

Social-network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times ...

Singapore fumes as air pollution hits 16-year high
Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze ...

Airborne laser reveals lost city around Angkor Wat
Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat ...
'Dead zones' predicted for Gulf, Chesapeake Bay
Scientists in Michigan and Louisiana are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico unless a tropical storm hits the area shortly ...

Radar shows tornado touched down at Denver airport
Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter ...

Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, ...

Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies in Maine
Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in ...

NYC to offer free phone-charging stations in parks
It's a message busy New Yorkers hate to get: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there's no charger in sight. Now that could be a thing of ...

Scientists discuss new photo-taking satellite
Nearly 120 scientists and engineers from around the world are meeting in South Dakota this week to discuss operational and technical issues with ...
New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3M people
Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday
Kenneth Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies
A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at ...

Scientists: Soggy British weather likely to stay
The best advice for visitors to Britain — pack an umbrella — is more vital than ever. Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been ...
Russia to close paper mill on Lake Baikal
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which ...