Hurricane Irene cut power to more than a million people in Puerto Rico, downing trees and flooding streets, before heading out over warm ocean water Monday on a path that could take it to the US mainland by the end of the week.
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Hanley Ramirez hit a grand slam and Dan Uggla singled home the winning run in the ninth inning for his third RBI as Florida beat New York just hours after the Marlins announced Edwin Rodriguez will remain their manager.
New York scored twice in the (...)
Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.
The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun (...)
A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an “apparent suicide,” US military officials announced Tuesday.
The Joint Task Force that runs the US prison in Cuba said guards found 31-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not (...)
As American astronauts overhauled the aging Hubble, European scientists launched an even larger space telescope toward a far-flung orbit, hoping to help answer two questions: How did the cosmos begin and are we alone in it? “We are seeking the (...)
Scientists are airlifting dozens of one of the world's largest frogs off of Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus devastating their dwindling habitat.
The dense forest of this tiny British Caribbean territory is the last remaining (...)
year-old British woman has set a new world record in freediving with a 314-foot (96-meter) ocean plunge on a single breath.
Sara Campbell completed the dive in three minutes, 34 seconds in the Vertical Blue competition Thursday off Long Island in (...)
Miss Universe's blog posting about having fun at Guantanamo Bay has vanished from the pageant's Web site as embarrassed officials try to quash what they call a misunderstanding.
A flurry of critical commentary and news stories over the Venezuelan (...)
Miss Universe and Miss USA have taken a firsthand look at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The beauty pageant winners took part in a VIP tour to entertain American military personnel at the prison in Cuba.
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Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by US forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday.
“There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a (...)
Families of two Saudi detainees who committed suicide in June 2006 while being held at Guantanamo Bay have sued the Pentagon, alleging Thursday that torture and brutal conditions at the offshore prison led the men to their deaths.
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