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Firefighters in various parts of the United States said they were battling wildfires Tuesday. Smoke from Florida wildfires blanketed part of the state's northeast, with no rain predicted to help dry conditions, officials said. Firefighters were trying to contain six of 20 wildfires in...

Tornadoes cut paths across the Dallas/Fort Worth area Tuesday smashing vehicles, homes and businesses before moving through northern Texas. Heavy damage was reported at Six Flags Amusement park in Arlington and large hail fell north of Irving, Accuweather.com reported. The first funnel cloud...

AP - The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs. More...

HILO, Hawaii, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- No damage was reported in the aftermath of a 4.7-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks that rattled Hawaii's Big Island, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 4:36 p.m. Sunday, 5 miles beneath Kilauea volcano. The...

AP - Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. More...

AP - Machine-gun fire and explosions erupted inside a Syrian city at the heart of the country's uprising Wednesday as activists reported two grisly attacks that killed at least 20 people in the past 24 hours. More...

Miami (CNN) -- Severe weather has damaged more than 50 homes in several Florida towns, officials said, and schools in the Florida Keys were canceled Wednesday because of heavy rain and frequent lightning. No serious injuries were reported. Damage assessments were under way in Plantation and...

Italian police have reported 15 suspected members of the Italian branch of the Anonymous hacker group to the judiciary for investigation on charges of illegally accessing IT systems, damaging IT systems and interrupting a public service, Italian media reported Wednesday. More...

Tokyo (CNN) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 struck off the Pacific Coast of northern Japan early Thursday, Japanese and U.S. seismologists reported. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that a tsunami could be generated by the temblor, but canceled the warning less than...

(CNN) -- As many as 270 Libyan refugees were missing in the sea after the overcrowded boat they were in encountered bad weather, the Tunisian state-run TAP news agency reported. The Tunisian coast guard responded to the rescue call regarding the fishing trawler, which became disabled Wednesday...

Mexico City (CNN) -- A preschool teacher in northern Mexico was recognized for her courage after a video that went viral on the Internet showed her calmly leading the class in song as gunshots went off outside, state media reported. In the video, Martha Rivera Alanis can be heard telling her...

SUDBURY, England, -- Staff at an open prison in England learned lawbreakers can get in as well as out when they discovered tools missing from a workshop. The burglary at the Sudbury Prison took place sometime before 9 a.m. Monday, the Derby Telegraph reported. In addition to tools...

(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he will temporarily run the country's Oil Ministry, state-run media reported Monday. The move, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, follows Ahmadinejad's decision to relieve three Iranian ministers of their duties as part of...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., -- An American Airlines jetliner was diverted safely to Little Rock, Ark., Sunday afternoon after a reported engine fire, officials said. Flight 1720, an MD 80, had been making its way to Washington Dulles International Airport from Dallas-Fort Worth with 136 passengers and...

-- Egyptian prosecutors have jailed a former ruling party official and three ministers from deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak's government, including its onetime interior minister, as part of a corruption investigation, state news outlets reported Thursday. All four have been ordered held for 15...

-- Three women died after a stampede at a night club in Hungary's capital, state media reported. People inside the West Balkan club rushed toward the exits when the music suddenly stopped during an event Saturday night, witnesses told Hungary's official MTI news agency. According to MTI, event...

A federal judge was killed and a congresswoman was critically wounded in a shooting rampage Saturday at a shopping plaza in Tucson, Arizona. Among the six people killed in the attack was Chief Judge John Roll of U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, President Barack Obama said in a...

-- A man claiming to have a bomb tried to enter the cockpit of a Turkish Airlines plane about to land in Istanbul, Turkey, but was tackled by passengers and taken into custody, Turkish media reported Wednesday. The man, identified as 40-year-old Cuma Yasar, was wearing a snowmask as he...

Three Chinese fishermen were released Saturday after being detained in South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported. The three were arrested last week after their vessel collided with a South Korean coast guard vessel. One fisherman was killed in the collision between a 63-ton fishing boat and the...

3 Hurt When Medical Helicopter Crashes - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a medical helicopter crashed Sunday morning in La Monte, injuring three crew members. KMBC's Marcus Moore reported that the...