ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another...
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another...
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns...
FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) — While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years,...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of...
MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next...
MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean.
MIAMI (AP) — Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean.
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
A new report from...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.
Benchmark crude for December...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for New Zealand dollars 3,080 ($2,220) on an auction Web site.
The bust...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California.
The findings come after the...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new...
NEW YORK (AP) — The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange:
NYSE:
American International Group...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may change its policy for inspecting coal ash impoundments after a survey uncovered more problems — and...
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was fading, he...
Instead of figuring out where to put nuclear waste, why can't we just find a way to neutralize it so it's no longer hazardous?
Curiosity about what to do with...
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.
"US 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead,"...
MOSS LANDING, Calif. (AP) — Marine biologists think they've figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says $150 million in federal funds will be made available for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in last year's floods.
The funding is...
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:
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LONDON — Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported a...
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:
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LONDON — Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported a...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly...
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