
Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 21 injured
One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent ...

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ...

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean
Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern ...
Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr
Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and ...

Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start ...

Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to ...

'Sonic' video games coming to Nintendo
Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo. Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo ...
Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the ...
Correction: Drunken Driving-Zero Deaths story
In a story May 17 about a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation on a blood alcohol threshold for drivers, The Associated Press ...
Bloomberg appoints ex-IBM CEO as privacy adviser
Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent ...

Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway
The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand.
Tableau Software soars in trading debut
Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial ...
Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the ...

Alaska volcano continues to erupt, with lava, ash
A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam ...

Interior issues new drilling rule on public land
Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing ...
UK court jails 4 Lulzsec hackers for cyberattacks
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were ...

Lawmakers accuse Google of dishonesty over taxes
U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax ...

Apple says App Store hit 50 billion downloads
Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that ...
UK officials: BP not seeking gov't help with spill
British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in ...

Residents shout 'Protest!' over refinery in China
More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted "Protest! Protest!" on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a ...
Indonesia extends forest-clearing ban for 2 years
Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rainforests and peatlands, officials said Thursday.
New Zealand's top court takes Kim Dotcom appeal
New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid ...

As rain from cyclone falls, Myanmar minority stay
A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the ...

NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system