NASA female astronaut back from space

2011-05-25 10:00:12

Ground personnel carry NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman (C) shortly after the landing with Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev

Tornado death toll rises to 122 in US

2011-05-25 10:32:16

The massive tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo. is now officially the deadliest single twister in the US in nearly six decades with a death toll of at least 122.

International space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan

2011-05-25 08:06:13

Russian, US astronauts phone home after arrival

Death toll from Missouri tornado climbs to 116

2011-05-24 06:54:07

The US suffered the deadliest single tornado in 60 years and the 2nd major tornado disaster in a month.

Death toll from Missouri tornado climbs to 116

2011-05-24 06:54:07

At least 116 people died Monday in a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of a Missouri town off the map, making it the nation's deadliest single tornado in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in a month.

Powerful tornadoes kill at least 31 in US Midwest

2011-05-23 15:27:06

Tornadoes tore through parts of the US Midwest on Sunday, killing at least 31 people.

Former IMF chief's apartment new tourist spot

2011-05-23 16:41:06

The New York apartment building where former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under house arrest has become a new tourist hot spot.

NASA clears space shuttle damage

2011-05-22 10:27:24

NASA says the gash in space shuttle Endeavour's belly poses no safety concern.

Playboy puts entire 57 years of magazines online

2011-05-20 11:02:29

Good news for those who thought their copies of Playboy were gone forever when their moms found them and threw them away.

Homosexuality, celibacy didn't cause abuse

2011-05-20 10:53:59

Researchers commissioned by Roman Catholic bishops in the US to analyze the pattern of clergy sex abuse have concluded that homosexuality, celibacy and an all-male priesthood did not cause the scandal.

FBI investigates Unabomber in 1982 Tylenol deaths

2011-05-20 09:28:18

Could the Unabomber and Chicago's Tylenol poisoner be one and the same? FBI agents investigating the Tylenol killings, unsolved for nearly 30 years, want Ted Kaczynski's DNA, but they aren't saying whether there's any reason to believe he might be a match.

US judge orders back-wages for Thai workers

2011-05-20 09:02:58

An administrative law judge has ordered a Los Angeles-based farm labor contractor to pay more than $340,000 for failing to properly treat and pay Thai farmworkers in Hawaii