(AP) — Naval students at Southern University now have a tool that can teach them how to maneuver through mine-filled waters or identify threatening vessels in the dark.
The Advocate reports the...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly two dozen people who were enjoying a bachelor party on what’s billed as San Francisco Bay’s only “floating wine tasting room” are OK after their...
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Surviving members of an Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days in the cordillera...
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — It’s not a meeting David Cameron is likely to enjoy.
The British prime minister is due to visit the leader of Scotland’s separatist administration Monday...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Tens of thousands rallied in Pakistan’s largest city Sunday in the biggest show of support yet for a 14-year-old girl who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal scientists and BP say oil appears to have leaked last month from the drilling wreckage lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out in 2010,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The nonpartisan Council for A Better Louisiana is opposing a constitutional amendment that would set a tougher standard for restricting the use of weapons and remove a provision...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Drivers may have gotten a chuckle out of an electronic message board in Maine warning of zombies, but city officials were not amused.
The sign at a Portland road construction...
NEW YORK (AP) — A 234-pound baby walrus is coming to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium in Brooklyn.
The 15-week mammal was rescued from the ocean off Alaska in July. The...
MIAMI (AP) — It’s not that body parts never wash ashore on Florida beaches. But usually it’s not an eye the size of a softball.
State wildlife officials are trying to determine the...
GENEVA (AP) — The world now has nearly as many cell phone subscriptions as inhabitants.
The U.N. telecom agency says there were about 6 billion subscriptions by the end of 2011 — roughly...
