China says it seized US Navy drone to ensure safety of ships
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN China said Saturday that its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea to ensure the “safe navigation of passing ships,” in…
Wildlife health
Dear Mama: Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, dies
By KRISTIN J. BENDER Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panther who inspired the work of her son, rap icon Tupac Shakur, and then fostered his legacy for decades after he…
Doctors, vets explore shared medical problems
By VERENA DOBNIK In this 2008 photo provided by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., Dr. Natterson-Horowitz listens to the heart of a female lion at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden…
WANTED MICH. MAN, 3 KIDS FOUND SAFE AT LAKESHORE
By JOHN FLESHER Searchers gather outside a ranger station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan, where a search was underway for a man and his three children…
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,…