WAVE OF JELLYFISH SHUTS DOWN SWEDISH NUKE REACTOR
By GARY PEACH FILE – In this May 22, 2008 file photo, an exterior view of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Oskarshamn, southeastern Sweden. Officials at OKG, which runs…
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AMERICANS ANXIOUS, IRRITATED AS GOV’T SHUTS DOWN
By DEEPTI HAJELA A sign explaining the closing of the Library of Congress is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation…
IN JAMAICA, A TWIST ON WINE TOURS FOR POT LOVERS
By DAVID McFADDEN In this Aug. 29, 2013 photo, farmer nicknamed Breezy shows his illegal patch of budding marijuana plants during a tour of his land in Jamaica’s central mountain…
JAPANESE ANIMATION MASTER MIYAZAKI BIDS FAREWELL
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARI YAMAGUCHI Hayao Miyazaki, one of animation’s most admired and successful directors, smiles during a press conference on his retirement in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.…
ALASKA FISHERMEN PROTEST WAL-MART DECISION
By MARK THIESSEN John Renner, a fisherman from Cordova, Alaska, protests outside a Wal-Mart in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. He and other fishermen protested against Wal-Mart’s corporate…
MEDICAL POT LOOKS TO ‘COLOR INSIDE THE LINES’
By MATT VOLZ FILE – In this April 20, 2013 file photo, members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver…
EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED AT YOSEMITE FIRE
In this photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, members of the Roosevelt Interagency Hotshot crew, from Fort Collins, Colo., gear up for a controlled burn operation as they fight…
NYAD MAKES 1ST CUBA-FLA. SWIM WITHOUT A SHARK CAGE
By JENNIFER KAY In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau Diana Nyad emerges from the Atlantic Ocean after completing a 111-mile swim from Cuba to Key West,…