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French court upholds Total liability in oil spill
France's highest appeals court has upheld a ruling that found petroleum company Total SA criminally responsible for a 1999 oil spill that blackened ...
Refueling problem causes delays at Oslo Airport
Dozens of flights were delayed or canceled Tuesday at Oslo Airport after a malfunction in the pumping system halted all aircraft refueling.
DUI tragedy forces Russian road safety rethink
It took a weekend road tragedy to jolt Russia into action over one of its most deadly threats: a chronic culture of drunken driving. Five orphaned ...
Kenya bombs Somali airport held by militants
The Kenyan military says its jets have bombed an airport in Somalia — the last major city in the country held by extremist insurgents who are fighting ...
FBI to investigate officer shooting double-amputee
A caretaker at a group home for the mentally ill called police in the middle of the night because a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair was ...
Smith suits up after brother's death, scores 2 TDs
Torrey Smith scored two touchdowns for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night, less than 24 hours after his younger brother was killed in a motorcycle ...
Drunken driver kills 7 at bus stop in Moscow
Five teenage Russian orphans, their teacher and her husband were all killed when a speeding car driven by a drunken driver crashed into a Moscow bus ...
LA preps for freeway closure and Carmageddon II
"Carmageddon II" — the sequel — is coming to one of the nation's most crowded freeways, and authorities are hoping its subtitle won't be "The Traffic ...
Central Bank bars Nigeria airlines from bank loans
Nigeria's Central Bank has barred the nation's top two airlines from receiving any additional loans over their massive outstanding debts, an official ...
US begins test flights of MV-22 Osprey in Japan
The U.S. Marines conducted their first test flights of the MV-22 Osprey aircraft in Japan on Friday after months of protests over safety concerns.
Endeavour salutes Giffords en route to California
Space shuttle Endeavour returned to its California roots Thursday after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former ...
Labor strife threatens American Airlines schedule
With American Airlines canceling dozens of flights every day, passengers with fall travel plans are confronting an inconvenient question: Should they ...
Video shows Lohan-pedestrian encounter at NY club
Grainy surveillance footage released Thursday shows Lindsay Lohan's car driving toward a man who says she hit him outside a nightclub and kept going, ...
Nigeria's largest airline halts domestic flights
Nigeria's largest airline Arik Air Ltd. halted all its domestic flights indefinitely Thursday as its leaders alleged government corruption made it ...
Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30
Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, ...
Key Miss. River lock reopens after emergency fixes
Shipping resumed Thursday through one of the Mississippi River's busiest locks, after crews completed emergency repairs that took days and that ...
Syrian TV: Helicopter crashes near Damascus
A Syrian military helicopter crashed in a rebellious suburb of Damascus on Thursday, state-run TV said, but the circumstances in which the aircraft ...
Authorities investigate package found near tracks
Authorities say the discovery of a package apparently containing human remains near a rail line in northern Virginia briefly disrupted four commuter ...
Lohan charged with leaving scene of NYC accident
Lindsay Lohan was arrested in New York early Wednesday on charges that she clipped a pedestrian with her car and did not stop driving, but her ...
Report: Syria aimed at Turkish jet with missile
Military prosecutors investigating the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria say initial findings show Syria targeted the plane with a long-range ...
US and Japan reach agreement on Osprey deployment
The United States and Japan have reached an agreement allowing the MV-22 Osprey military aircraft to begin flight operations in Japan, officials said ...
NM security official tries to take gun on flight
Albuquerque airport officials say the second-in-command of New Mexico's domestic security agency was caught trying to bring a loaded gun through a ...
Older drivers face confusing array of license laws
Jerry Wiseman notices it's harder to turn and check his car's blind spots at age 69 than it was at 50. So the Illinois man and his wife took a ...
Spanish rail and subway transport hit by strikes
Hundreds of Spanish train services have been canceled, resulting in traffic jams on roads into Madrid and Barcelona, as rail and subway workers staged ...
11 killed in 2011 crash at Reno air races honored
Spectators and racers paid tribute Sunday to 11 people who were killed when a plane crashed into box seats at last year's Reno National Championship ...