State health officials say the deaths of 77 people in Florida have been linked to swine flu. ...more

September 10, 2009

The explosion of an overturned petrol tanker Saturday night in Kenya could be felt for miles, and in the moments that followed, people ablaze, their clothes burned off, ran to the bush in a futile effort to escape the pain and begged for help. ...more

February 2, 2009

The price of gas is what led Scott Stevens of Arcadia to begin riding his motorcycle instead of the family SUV to and from work at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. ...more

January 4, 2009

With fewer than two weeks until 2009, authorities say the Orlando area has broken its all-time annual murder record this year. ...more

December 22, 2008

Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years. ...more

November 30, 2008

Church bells tolled, candles flickered under falling snow and national flags, adorned with black ribbons, flew in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Saturday as the country marked the anniversary of the start of a Soviet-era famine that killed millions. ...more

November 23, 2008

The Bush administration, in the midst of a wide review of its war strategy in Afghanistan, is likely to recommend soon to the incoming Obama administration that the United States push for further expansion of the Afghan army as the surest path to an eventual U.S. withdrawal, The Associated Press has learned. The strategy review, which began in September amid increasing militant violence and a growing U.S. and allied death toll, is being coordinated at the White House and is expected to be presented by December. ...more

November 17, 2008

A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. ...more

November 8, 2008

Relief workers are still finding mountain villages destroyed in the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that have yet to receive aid, the Red Cross said Saturday. ...more

November 2, 2008

PAKISTAN - Pakistan's prime minister says the death toll from the huge truck bombing of a luxury hotel in Pakistan's capital has reached about 53. ...more

September 21, 2008