LUCKNOW - Three sons of a former Janata Dal parliamentarian have been booked for killing a youth over a trivial issue in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, police said Saturday.

Pakistan unsure about India’s offer for flood aid

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is unsure about how to respond to a $5 million aid offered by India to help overcome its flood crisis that left over 1,600 people dead, a media report said Saturday.

NTSB: Alaska plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens had system to alert pilot of land ahead

Girl digs with hands to rescue family in China

BEIJING - Tired and injured, an 18-year-old girl braved inclement weather and dug with her bare hands for three days in a vain attempt to rescue her family members burried under mudslides in northwest China.

7.2-magnitude quake hits Guam

WASHINGTON - A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of US territory Guam Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on its website.

Broken pipe blamed for Nevada gold mine accident that leaves 2 miners in shaft

Investigators talk with 2 survivors of Alaska plane crash in search for possible cause

BP must ensure stopping of oil spill

WASHINGTON - Oil giant BP must complete work on a relief well in order to be certain that the worst oil spill in US history has been stopped for good, government officials said Friday.

Killing spree leaves three family members dead in China

BEIJING - Three persons of a family died during a killing spree in southwest China’s Guizhou province, police said Friday.

Authorities say 2 dead after small plane crashes in Northern Calif.’s Sierra Nevada

Group selects 27 research projects to get BP money for studies of gulf oil spill effects

Ukraine denies Chernobyl fire reports

KIEV - Ukraine denied Friday reports of wildfires in the Chernobyl zone that was heavily contaminated with radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

Trinidad oil company cleaning up oil spill in island rivers, denies it has reached ocean

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake rattles Pacific; no widespread tsunami threat predicted

Scientists: Haiti quake was caused by previously undetected fault line, not suspected culprit

Company hires contractors and handles claims, but cost for Mich. oil spill not yet determined

Feds say BP’s broken oil well not dead yet, more drilling needed to kill it once and for all

Unable to see out of his left eye after plane crash, NASCAR’s Roush returns to the racetrack

11 dead in China rail accident

BEIJING - Eleven people were killed in a train derailment at a railway construction site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Friday, authorities said.

NASCAR’s Roush shakes off injuries from plane crash, returns to the racetrack

Federal official: 36-foot-long crack in W.Va. mine didn’t cause blast, disputes Massey claim

Official: Distress beacon registered to downed plane in Alaska; no alert reported, though

Infosys employee held for wife’s murder

BANGALORE - Satish Kumar Gupta, a senior employee of the Infosys Technologies Ltd, was detained late Friday in connection with the murder of his wife Priyanka here, police said.

Small plane lands on Lake Erie near Ohio island; crew on ferry boat pulls 4 out safely

Obama lends assistance to combat wildfires in Russia

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama offered condolences and lent assistance to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as a wave of wildfires have swept across the former Soviet Republic, the White House said Friday.

Colombia offers $260K in capital car bomb probe; authorities investigating who set off blast

BP’s blown-out well not yet killed; relief well to permanently seal well will be finished

NASCAR’s Roush home after plane crash, Biffle says boss might be at track this weekend

Ames must cut water usage after flooding because conservation efforts are falling short

Water towers filling in Ames, Iowa, but residents urged to conserve as water crisis persists

Pakistan fatigue? Global aid response to floods slow compared to other crises

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Broken pipe blamed for Nevada gold mine accident that leaves 2 miners missing, feared dead

Rescuers close in on missing miners in Nevada

Federal government: Work to drill relief well to plug blown-out Gulf well must go forward

Federal government: Relief well must go forward

Former NASA head Sean O’Keefe improving in Anchorage hospital after crash that killed Stevens

Ex-NASA head O’Keefe improving after Alaska crash

World experiences second hottest July on record, hottest first 7 months of year

Trend continues with second hottest July on record

Tiny Town reopens but train still not running; authorities say engineer may have accelerated

Tiny Town reopens following train accident

Small plane crashes into Lake Erie near Ohio island; witness says 4 people appear unhurt

Small plane crashes into Lake Erie off Ohio

6 Detroit firefighters hurt battling suspicious blaze after partial building collapse

6 Detroit firefighters hurt in battling blaze

Sri Lanka ex-army chief convicted by military court

COLOMBO - A military court has recommended the dishonorable discharge of former army commander General Sarath Fonseka after finding him guilty of interfering in politics while serving in the military, an official said Friday.

German tried to murder wife with poisoned cheese

BRAUNSCHWEIG - A German man tried to kill his wife with poisoned cheese after she threatened to divorce him, a court heard Friday.

11 members of drug gang killed in Mexico

Mexico City, Aug 13 (IANS/EFE) Eleven members of a drug gang were killed in fighting with soldiers in northwestern Mexico, an official said Friday.

Tension in Himachal village over inter-caste marriage

SHIMLA - Tension prevailed in a Himachal Pradesh village in Sirmaur district Friday over an inter-caste marriage, police said.

How ship collision took place in Mumbai harbour

MUMBAI - Minutes before they collided in Mumbai harbour, MSC Chitra was proceeding properly outbound within the main navigation channel while Khalijia 3 was entering the channel against the rules, which led to the collision, an official said Friday.

Woman kills two sons, self in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW - A 37-year-old woman committed suicide after poisoning her two sons in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district Friday, police said.

Four of family killed in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW - Four members of a family, including three minors, were killed and two others injured by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district Friday, police said.

BP and federal scientists reviewing tests on Gulf oil well to see if leak is plugged for good

BP reviewing pressure tests on Gulf oil well

8 Detroit firefighters hurt battling blaze after building partially collapses

8 Detroit firefighters hurt battling blaze

CBI raids houses of two bank officials

RANCHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday conducted raids on the houses of two Bank of India officials, who allegedly committed fraud in distribution of Kisan Vikas Patra amounting to nearly Rs.3.20 crore, in Karra area here and Bihar’s Darbhanga district, sources said.

IAF transports bridging equipment to Leh

CHANDIGARH - The Indian Air Force (IAF), from its Chandigarh base, has started transporting bridging equipment to install temporary bridges in Jammu and Kashmir’s Leh town.

US sending firefighting equipment to Russia to help battle wildfires, Obama phones Medvedev

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