9/30/2009 5:51:48 AM
AP - A massive tsunami hurled by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing Wednesday. The toll was expected to rise.
9/30/2009 6:04:32 AM
AP - The recession faded in the spring with economic activity shrinking at a pace of just 0.7 percent, a better-than-expected showing that buttressed beliefs the economy is growing now.
9/30/2009 3:34:52 AM
AP - A sweeping health overhaul bill has survived a major challenge from the left, but onslaughts loom from the right on thorny issues including abortion and insurance coverage for illegal immigrants.
9/30/2009 6:04:44 AM
AP - Opening a government meeting on auto safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in vehicle crashes connected to driver distraction, a striking indication of the dangers of using mobile devices behind the wheel.
9/30/2009 6:41:00 AM
AP - The United States is speeding up its military withdrawal from Iraq, sending 4,000 more troops home next month, the top American commander there says.
9/30/2009 6:26:17 AM
AP - Even as they prepare for new talks Thursday with Iran on its nuclear program, the U.S. and its allies are contemplating new and tighter sanctions on Tehran, in a clear signal of expectations that the negotiations may again end in failure.
9/30/2009 5:23:12 AM
AP - A Canadian circus tycoon, an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off in a spacecraft from the Kazakh steppe Wednesday on a journey to the International Space Station.
9/30/2009 4:18:49 AM
AP - A New York court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against CBS Corp., noting that the network continued to pay the anchor $6 million a year even after he left the evening news broadcast.
9/30/2009 6:42:33 AM
AP - Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports.
9/30/2009 6:16:44 AM
AP - International Olympic Committee members are agonizing over which city should be awarded the right to host the 2016 Games and many remain undecided just two days before the vote.
9/30/2009 4:34:20 AM
Reuters - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, some washed out to sea, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.
9/30/2009 1:36:41 AM
Reuters - The United States will withdraw about 4,000 troops from Iraq by the end of October, the U.S. military commander in Iraq said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
9/30/2009 6:30:22 AM
Reuters - Iran said on Wednesday it viewed talks with six world powers in Geneva as an "opportunity and a test," while the United States weighed sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program if Thursday's meeting fails.
9/29/2009 10:07:57 PM
Reuters - President Barack Obama's drive to tackle global warming gets a boost on Wednesday, when Democrats in the Senate are expected to unveil a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next four decades.
9/30/2009 3:59:26 AM
Reuters - The Chinese capital Beijing is under lockdown on the eve of a massive military parade to mark six decades of Communist Party rule, with gun-toting police manning street corners to ensure nothing spoils the event.
9/30/2009 6:22:22 AM
Reuters - More than 5,800 people were killed and 515,000 injured in U.S. car crashes last year tied to distracted driving, according to data released on Wednesday.
9/30/2009 3:08:39 AM
Reuters - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a military convoy of foreign forces in southeastern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing one American, officials said.
9/29/2009 11:49:16 PM
Reuters - Vietnam's central provinces battled the biggest floods in decades on Wednesday caused by a powerful typhoon that swept into the country after wreaking havoc in the Philippines.
9/30/2009 6:16:58 AM
AFP - Towering tsunamis churned up by a huge earthquake slammed into the Samoan islands on Wednesday, killing at least 113 people as they wiped out entire villages and flattened tourist resorts.
9/30/2009 2:47:30 AM
AFP - Typhoon Ketsana extended its trail of destruction across Southeast Asia Wednesday, killing at least 66 people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and unleashing some of the worst floods in a decade.
9/30/2009 4:01:00 AM
A two-day summit that kicks off in Washington Wednesday will examine the deepening safety concerns posed by distracted drivers. Some want a national ban on text messaging behind the wheel. But how do you convince overconfident drivers they are the danger?
9/30/2009 4:00:00 AM
Survivors fled the fast-churning water for higher ground and remained huddled there hours after the quake struck early Tuesday. Signs of devastation were everywhere.
9/30/2009 6:28:00 AM
When Iran talks about its nuclear program Thursday, it will face six other world powers at the table. Former Ambassador Nicholas Burns was the State Department's top negotiator on Iran during the final years of the Bush Administration. He talks with Steve Inskeep about what some of the key participants want out of the negotiations.
9/30/2009 5:53:00 AM
The Pacific islands of Samoa and American Somoa have been hit with a devastating tsunami. Giant waves flattened villages and swept people and property away. Scores of people have been killed. Maposua Norman Paul, who owns a resort in Samoa, talks with Renee Montagne about the hardest hit area of the island.
9/30/2009 5:33:00 AM
President Obama has promised to clean up the so-called earmarking process that allows lawmakers to insert pet projects into government spending bills. Despite the president's call for change, the defense bill that's making its way through the Senate still sets aside billions of dollars for projects the military says it doesn't need.
9/30/2009 5:01:00 AM
California Senator Barbara Boxer unveils a bill to reduce green house gas emissions by 20% to help slow climate change. The plan uses a cap and trade system and would rework the entire energy economy of the country.
9/30/2009 3:32:00 AM
Federal regulators say the rash of bank failures that are depleting the deposit insurance fund will likely cost about $100 billion over the next four years. To shore up the fund, the FDIC board has voted to require banks to prepay three years worth of premiums. The banking industry is generally supporting the proposal.
9/30/2009 3:00:00 AM
The Obama administration is taking its first hard look at highway hazards like talking on cellphones and texting while driving. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicks off a two-day summit involving researchers, automakers, safety advocates and lawmakers to find ways of preventing distracted driving from leading to widespread deaths and injuries. LaHood talks to Steve Inskeep about what the summit can accomplish.
9/30/2009 2:00:00 AM
A new TV advertising service will give viewers the ability to get information, coupons and free samples without leaving the couch. Optimum Select invites viewers to hit a button on their remote controls to learn more about advertised products.
9/29/2009 10:00:00 PM
Every spring, male grouse gather in the Great Plains and engage in a mass act of strutting, showmanship and general vocal frenzy that would put Mick Jagger to shame. For researchers, it's an opportunity to observe how these animals interact in a rapidly changing American West.
9/29/2009 9:01:00 PM
Baseball players have something new to chew on: In the past few years, major league teams have thrown out fatty foods. At least a third of baseball clubs are recruiting nutritionists to make game day spreads healthier. Now, players are more likely to eat baby carrots than a Baby Ruth.
9/29/2009 9:01:00 PM
The National Transportation Safety Board is scolding the leaders of three states for not passing tougher laws mandating child booster seats. Arizona, Florida and South Dakota are the only states that don't require older children to ride in boosters.
9/29/2009 9:01:00 PM
A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard school of Public Health says while lawmakers bicker and deal, the public feels largely shut out. Despite public support, the Senate Finance Committee voted down the public option Tuesday.
9/29/2009 9:00:00 PM
In the still-evolving health care overhaul effort, are the doctors, pharmaceutical industry and insurers winning, by negotiating good deals for themselves? Or is this a success for the administration, because these groups are still in the game?
9/29/2009 2:38:00 PM
A New York court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against CBS Corp., noting that the network continued to pay the anchor $6 million a year even after he left the evening news broadcast.
9/30/2009 3:50:03 AM
A tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake in the Pacific kills more than 100 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.
9/30/2009 6:09:38 AM
An EU-sponsored report into the war in Georgia last year says Georgia started it, but after months of Russian provocation.
9/30/2009 4:53:44 AM
Adapting to impacts of climate change will cost the developing world up to $100bn per year, a World Bank study concludes.
9/30/2009 4:32:57 AM
Israel says it will free 20 female Palestinian detainees in return for proof that captured soldier Gilad Shalit is alive.
9/30/2009 4:54:21 AM
Falling prices and increased testing have led to a marked rise in the number of people in the poorest parts of the world receiving treatment for HIV.
9/30/2009 4:02:05 AM
The BBC learns that UN official Peter Galbraith is to be removed from his post in Afghanistan, but the envoy denies this.
9/30/2009 6:03:33 AM
The US economy shrank at an annual pace of 0.7% between April and June, not 1% as previous estimates had said.
9/30/2009 6:24:50 AM
Kenya's much-criticised anti-corruption chief resigns following a row over his reappointment by the president.
9/30/2009 1:30:23 AM
Google is unleashing its communication tool which it hopes will reinvent e-mail and instant messaging.
9/30/2009 5:22:24 AM
The Tango musical genre and its traditional dance is declared part of the world's Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations.
9/30/2009 3:03:36 AM
Author JK Rowling missed out on a top civilian honour in the US because some politicians believed she "encouraged witchcraft", it is claimed.
9/30/2009 5:52:42 AM
Arsenal director Stan Kroenke increases his shareholding in the London football club, raising his stake to 28.7%.
9/30/2009 1:20:57 AM
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez vows his side will "never again" be as bad as during their 2-0 Champions League defeat at Fiorentina on Tuesday.
9/25/2009 6:08:54 AM
Iran has test-fired its longest range missile. How will this affect talks over Iran's nuclear programme?
9/30/2009 5:10:18 AM
Harriet Harman says Labour "won't be bullied" after the Sun says that it will not be supporting Labour at the next election.
9/30/2009 5:11:14 AM
A British toddler is missing presumed dead after a deadly tsunami hit the South Pacific island of Samoa.
9/30/2009 4:22:33 AM
Plans for new laws to stop under-18s from using sunbeds and a ban on unstaffed tanning salons are unveiled in Wales.
9/30/2009 6:19:15 AM
A property developer is jailed for life for murdering a tenant who refused to leave a £2m building he was trying to sell.
9/30/2009 6:16:23 AM
Powers to allow a cull of badgers in Wales are formally applied for in an attempt to eradicate TB in cattle.
9/30/2009 12:16:06 AM
An investigation begins into the death of an Afghan girl who died when a box of leaflets dropped by an RAF aircraft landed on her.
9/30/2009 4:01:21 AM
Guinea's military ruler bans "subversive" gatherings, days after troops killed a large number of opposition protesters.
9/29/2009 11:48:33 PM
A senior US official on a visit to Havana held high-level talks with Cuban officials - the first such in years - US diplomats confirm.
9/30/2009 6:21:06 AM
An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, demolishing homes and causing panic.
9/30/2009 3:15:15 AM
Four Google executives go on trial in Milan over the posting of a video showing a teenager being bullied.
9/30/2009 2:26:19 AM
UN investigator Richard Goldstone defends his damning report, dubbed "flawed" by US officials, on Israel's conduct in Gaza.
9/30/2009 5:38:13 AM
Pakistan's Taliban release a video showing the body of their former leader, as six are reported killed in a missile strike in Waziristan.
9/30/2009 3:47:33 AM
Kraft Foods is told by the UK's Takeover Panel that it must make a formal offer for Cadbury by 9 November.
9/29/2009 4:00:15 PM
Social isolation may trigger biological changes that make cancer more deadly, US research on mice suggests.
9/30/2009 1:36:47 AM
Director Roman Polanski faces more time in jail, after being told that a court decision over a request to release him could take weeks.
9/30/2009 12:17:19 AM
Circus entrepreneur Guy Laliberte is to become the "first clown in space" as he lifts off in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan.
9/30/2009 3:57:43 AM
A simple method of magnifying light pulses in time could pack significantly more information into the data packets of the internet.
9/30/2009 6:43:39 AM
A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, toppling buildings, cutting power and triggering a landslide on Sumatra ... 
9/30/2009 6:29:01 AM
Opening a government meeting on auto safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed ... 
9/30/2009 5:38:18 AM
Drier conditions are expected for the eastern USA, while a strong storm will continue tracking over the Rockies. 
9/30/2009 5:30:15 AM
A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages ... 
9/30/2009 5:50:05 AM
The National Institutes of Health is getting $5 billion in economic stimulus funds to support research into cures for cancer ... 
9/30/2009 6:16:30 AM
A spacecraft carrying Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte and two crew mates lifted off from the Kazakh steppe on schedule Wednesday ... 
9/30/2009 2:25:38 AM
Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile attack has killed six alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan. 
9/30/2009 2:01:03 AM
United Nations health officials estimate about 4 million people who need AIDS drugs worldwide are now getting them, according ... 
9/29/2009 11:57:38 PM
The latest skirmish between conservatives and the Obama administration the proliferation of "czars" named by the president to ... 
9/29/2009 10:39:19 PM
Almost 13 years after California became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for some medical conditions storefront ... 
9/29/2009 8:38:58 PM
A Senate committee drafting health care legislation soundly rejected two versions of a proposed government-run program Tuesday. ... 
9/29/2009 8:41:08 PM
As Congress debates the government's role in health care, a report out Wednesday finds that state and federal officials failed ... 
9/29/2009 11:25:31 PM
Non-profit guesthouses and similar programs offering free lodging to families of the seriously ill are struggling to stay viable. 
9/30/2009 6:22:07 AM
After nearly eight years of war, Afghanistan's security forces are still plagued by corruption, high levels of absenteeism, a ... 
9/30/2009 5:15:05 AM
For more than a century, mules have been carrying people into and out of the Grand Canyon. Teddy Roosevelt saddled up wearing ... 
9/30/2009 5:57:10 AM
Towering tsunami waves triggered by an 8.0 earthquake left at least 111 people dead in the Samoan islands. Entire villages are flattened or submerged. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Salamo Laumoli, director of health services at a medical center in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa. 
9/30/2009 6:18:58 AM
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 struck in Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. 
9/30/2009 3:38:37 AM
President Obama, in an effort to stimulate the economy and support critical research, will announce $5 billion in grants when he visits the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, according to an administration official. 
9/30/2009 1:10:36 AM
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency said Iran broke the law by not disclosing sooner its recently revealed uranium enrichment site. 
9/30/2009 5:59:04 AM
Tracy Rodriguez is not a trained private investigator or police officer. But with a gentle tap on her iPhone screen, the mother of three can access information revealing the sex offenders who live within a 10-mile radius of where her children practice sports or watch movies. 
9/29/2009 11:28:17 PM
The United States will withdraw another 4,000 troops in Iraq by the end of October, the U.S. military commander in Iraq said in prepared testimony for a congressional hearing Wednesday. /a> 
9/30/2009 3:32:47 AM
The president had his first foray into the byzantine world of U.N. politics last week and walked away cheered on by the anti-America crowd. 
9/30/2009 12:29:12 AM
Michael Jackson was one of the most famous people in the world. Yet for all his global notoriety, the man himself was shrouded in mystery. 
9/30/2009 4:59:51 AM
A Blue Ribbon Panel of distinguished leaders and humanitarians -- including Gen. Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg and Sir Elton John -- has selected 2009's Top 10 CNN Heroes, who will be announced Thursday, October 1. 
9/30/2009 5:47:22 AM
Daniel Gray loves automobiles so much that it almost feels wrong to drive another vehicle: "I'll admit it. I love my car, but I cheat on it with a different car every week," he said. 
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