POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN DEADLY LA DRIVING ATTACK
By TAMI ABDOLLAH and ANDREW DALTON In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk…
Environment and nature
RIG FOR RELIEF WELL BEING POSITIONED AT GAS LEAK
A fire is seen on the Hercules 265 drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Natural gas spewed uncontrolled from the…
IAEA: JAPAN NUKE CLEANUP MAY TAKE MORE THAN 40 YRS
By MARI YAMAGUCHI International Atomic Energy Agency mission team leader Juan Carlos Lentijo speaks during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, April 22, 2013. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team said…
GORBACHEV SEES GLOBAL FAILURE TO ADDRESS ECO-RISKS
By JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this March 30, 2013 file picture former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during his open lecture ”Does a man change history, or history change…
CHINA WHO CHIEF: BEIJING H7N9 CASE NOT SURPRISING
A nurse stays with a patient at a specialized fever clinic inside the Ditan Hospital, where a Chinese girl warded for the H7N9 strain of bird flu, in Beijing Saturday,…
CHINA REPORTS NEW BIRD FLU DEATH, 2 NEW INFECTIONS
Chickens are hung in line at a slaughterhouse, approved by the municipal government to process poultry, after live poultry trading was banned following the H7N9 bird flu outbreak, in Pudong,…
AP PHOTOS: HOW FRACKING TRANSFORMS FORTUNES, LAND
By BRENNAN LINSLEY In this March 29, 2013 photo, a worker uses a headset and microphone to communicate with coworkers over the din of pump trucks, at the site of…
REPORT: GLOBAL WARMING DIDN’T CA– USE BIG US DROUGHT
By SETH BORENSTEIN FILE – In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. A new federal science report looking at last…