Nation and World
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Handyman robot ready for some eyes
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space station's new robot had its arms attached the last time spacewalking astronauts floated outside. Next up for Dextre: eyes and a set of ...
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Officials assess impact of tornado damage to downtown Atlanta
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Many streets were closed and some traffic lights were still out Monday morning because of a tornado that ripped a path of destruction through the city's core....
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Falling home prices knock down flying-saucer house sale price
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about. The Space House sold at auction Saturday...
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Heather Mills gets $48.6 mil in split with Paul McCartney
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills was settled Monday for $48.6 million -- an enormous sum, but a fraction of what she had sought and a sliver of the ...
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Missiles strike Pakistani tribal area, 20 reported dead
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan -- Missiles that witnesses say came from an unmanned drone flattened a suspected militant safehouse Sunday in Pakistan's tribal area along the Afgha...
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On Manson's trail, forensic testing suggests possible new grave sites
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Ma...
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Munitions dump explodes in Albania
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - TIRANA, Albania -- A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump on Saturday killed at least five people and injured 243, including many children, authorities ...
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Firings over Spears' medical files
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalize...
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Pakistan bomb blast injures Americans, other foreigners
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A bomb exploded in the back garden of an Italian restaurant crowded with foreigners in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, killing a Turkish woman and...
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Fed 'pulling out all the stops' to ease financial crisis
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, in an extraordinarily rare weekend move, took bold action Sunday evening to provide cash to financially squeezed Wall Street investmen...