AP - Federal investigators worked Sunday to unravel the commuter train collision with a freight locomotive that killed at least 25 people, urging caution as a transit company blamed its own engineer for the horrific accident.
AP - Rescue crews canvassing neighborhoods with dump trucks, helicopters and airboats have saved nearly 2,000 residents who ignored evacuation orders and stayed to face Hurricane Ike, authorities said Sunday.
AFP - Rescuers picked through a trail of devastation in Texas after Ike flattened hundreds of homes, flooded barrier islands and knocked out power to millions of people.
AFP - An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed near a Ural mountains city Sunday killing all 88 passengers and crew on board, after reportedly catching fire in the sky, the airline said.
Reuters - At least 25 people were killed in
the head-on crash of a commuter train and a freight train near
Los Angeles that officials on Saturday attributed to the
failure of the passenger train engineer to stop at a red light.
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
said in an interview published on Sunday he will remain in
office until 2010, a decision likely to stoke tensions with
Islamist Hamas rivals who oppose his peace talks with Israel.
Reuters - When General David Petraeus took over
as U.S. military commander in Iraq in February 2007, the
country was on the brink of all-out civil war.
Reuters - Police officers trawled slums and
criminal hideouts in India's capital on Sunday rounding up
suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier
killed at least 20 people and wounded nearly 100.
Reuters - The Bush administration is pushing
through a wide range of foreign weapons deals in a bid to rearm
Iraq and Afghanistan and contain North Korea and Iran, The New
York Times reported. -- read full article
Reuters - A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner
crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88
passengers and crew on board, including 21 foreign nationals.
Reuters - A weakened storm Ike barreled northward
on Sunday after slamming into the Texas coast as a hurricane,
flooding seaside towns, cutting power to millions and
paralyzing the oil hub of Houston.
Reuters - Regulators and bankers
failed on Saturday to reach a deal to end the crisis at
investment bank Lehman Brothers , and emergency talks
were extended to a third day as authorities seek to calm
jittery financial markets.
AP - P.J. Hill and Wisconsin spoiled the biggest game in Bulldog Stadium history. Hill ran for 112 yards and Allan Evridge threw a touchdown pass before leaving with an injury to help the 10th-ranked Badgers beat No. 21 Fresno State 13-10 on Saturday night.
