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South Korea: NKorea's satellite orbiting normally
A satellite North Korea launched aboard a long-range rocket is orbiting normally, South Korean officials said Thursday, following a defiant liftoff ...
Cathay crew threaten no smiles, booze on flights
Flight attendants at Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Airways are threatening to withhold food, alcohol and even smiles from passengers during the ...
Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion
Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and ...
10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. US TRIES FOR A TRICKY BALANCE ON KOREA ...
NKorea hails launch despite risk of consequences
North Korea, though struggling to feed its people, is now one of the few countries to have successfully launched a satellite into space from its own ...
UN Security Council condemns NKorea rocket launch
The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's successful rocket launch on Wednesday and said it will urgently consider "an appropriate response.
Virgin Galactic future at Spaceport uncertain
The deal was sold to New Mexicans in classic Richard Branson fashion. If taxpayers would build the colorful British businessman a $209 million ...
After Sandy, NYC eyes moving power gear higher
A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring ...
Iran says it can make copy of captured CIA drone
Iran is now capable of manufacturing its own copies of an advanced CIA spy drone captured last year, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday.
Serbia's billionaire retail tycoon detained
Serbia's billionaire retail tycoon and one of the Balkan country's most influential figures was detained Wednesday in what the nationalist government ...
A look at North Korea's missile arsenal
North Korea's missile program is a point of national pride, with state TV regularly broadcasting past liftoffs set to rousing military anthems.
Gaza's tunnels rebound from Israeli offensive
Rafah's biggest industry is back in business: Gazans are rebuilding the network of underground smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Egyptian border ...
Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon
Crews might be allowed to begin destroying two rock pinnacles impeding barge traffic on the Mississippi River as early as next week, more than a month ...
Why efforts to stop factory fires have failed
About a year and a half before a fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh killed 112 people in November, executives from Wal-Mart, Gap and other big ...
Air Force sends mystery mini-shuttle back to space
The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the ...
Texas judge halts TransCanada oil pipeline work
A Texas judge has ordered TransCanada to temporarily halt work on a private property where it is building part of an oil pipeline designed to carry ...
Cyprus court orders retrial regarding plane crash
Cyprus' Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for four former airline officials who had been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges for ...
US wholesalers boost stockpiles in October
U.S. wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles in October but their sales fell sharply, a mix sign for economic growth. The Commerce Department ...
Spain's Iberia unions cancel pre-Christmas strikes
Labor unions representing a majority of workers in Spain's Iberia airline have called off six days of strikes they had planned to stage before the ...
Solid evidence elusive in right-to-work debate
Gov. Rick Snyder says one reason he supports right-to-work legislation in Michigan is the economic boost a similar law has given Indiana, although ...
American's CEO says airline turnaround nearly done
American Airlines CEO Thomas Horton suggests that his management team has earned the right to keep leading the company even if it merges with US ...
NKorea extends window, still readies rocket launch
North Korea is pressing ahead with preparation for a long-range rocket launch after extending its liftoff window by another week until Dec. 29 because ...
Bike, large truck deaths soar, bucking trend
Deaths of bicyclists and occupants of large trucks rose sharply last year even as total traffic fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, ...
Ingersoll-Rand to spin off security business
Industrial conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand says it will spin off its security technology business and buy back $2 billion of shares. The Ireland-based ...
STMicroelectronics to exit Ericsson joint venture
Europe's largest chipmaker, STMicroelectronics NV, said Monday it plans to exit its money-losing joint venture ST-Ericsson, as it struggles to manage ...