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Two Koreas trade fire across maritime border Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 09:23 PM PDT North and South Korea traded fire across their disputed maritime border on Monday, with the South's military saying it had responded to shells landing in its waters from a North live-fire drill. "Some of the shells fired by North Korea dropped in our area and our side responded with fire," a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP. Full Story | Top |
Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 08:26 PM PDT If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a U.N. scientific panel warned. Full Story | Top |
U.S., Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:57 PM PDT Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov disagreed on crucial issues. Full Story | Top |
Seabed of jet hunt zone mostly flat with 1 trench Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:29 PM PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two miles beneath the sea surface where satellites and planes are looking for debris from the missing Malaysian jet, the ocean floor is cold, dark, covered in a squishy muck of dead plankton and — in a potential break for the search — mostly flat. The troubling exception is a steep, rocky drop ending in a deep trench. Full Story | Top |
Mudslide death toll rises; search dogs take break Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 07:21 PM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Many of the dogs essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community will take a two-day break, rescue crews said Sunday, as the official death toll rose and more bodies were recovered. Full Story | Top |
Congress: GM twice failed to fix defect Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 03:58 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — General Motors discussed two separate fixes for an ignition switch defect in 2005 but canceled both of them without taking action, according to a memo released Sunday by the House subcommittee investigating GM's handling of the defect and a subsequent recall. Full Story | Top |
Test accurately rules out heart attacks in the ER Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 11:40 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A simple test appears very good at ruling out heart attacks in people who go to emergency rooms with chest pain, a big public health issue and a huge worry for patients. Full Story | Top |
Smith, Denorfia lift Padres to 3-1 win over LA Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 09:27 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — For one day at least, the moderate-payroll San Diego Padres are in first place in the NL West, ahead of the big-spending Los Angeles Dodgers. Full Story | Top |
No national system to track landslide hazards Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 04:24 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — People living in the path of a deadly Washington state landslide had virtually no warning before a wall of mud, trees and other debris thundered down the mountain. Some of the homeowners didn't even know the hillside could give way at any time. Full Story | Top |
Fearsome Final Foursome headed to North Texas Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 07:36 PM PDT The road to redemption goes through North Texas for a fearsome Final Four of power programs with something to prove. Full Story | Top |
Conflict with Russia galvanizes Ukraine's identity Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 04:24 AM PDT KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — He's one of Russia's favorite doctors, the author of books read by parents from Moscow to Siberia. And he lives in eastern Ukraine where the Russian language is dominant and ties to Russia strong. Full Story | Top |
Mudslide death toll rises, search dogs take break Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 06:35 PM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Many of the dogs that have been essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried the mountainside community of Oso will take a two-day break after long hours in the cold and rain, rescue crews said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Confirmed dead in Washington mudslide rises to 21 Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 06:26 PM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the number of people who have been confirmed dead from the mudslide in Washington state has increased from 18 to 21. Full Story | Top |
Search dogs take break from mudslide recovery Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:16 PM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Many of the dogs that have been essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried the mountainside community of Oso will take a two-day break after long hours in the cold and rain, rescue crews said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
No objects from search linked yet to Flight 370 Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 02:43 PM PDT PERTH, Australia (AP) — Despite what Australia called an "intensifying search effort," an international hunt Sunday by aircraft and ships in the southern Indian Ocean found no debris linked to the Malaysian jet that vanished more than three weeks ago. Full Story | Top |
Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 07:14 PM PDT Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Full Story | Top |
NKorea conducts live-fire drills near sea boundary Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 09:08 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday conducted live-fire drills near the rival Koreas' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said, in a move seen as an expression of Pyongyang's frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid. Full Story | Top |
Brazil police push into Rio de Janeiro slums Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:27 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ahead of this year's World Cup. Full Story | Top |
Thousands in Taiwan protest China trade deal Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:43 AM PDT Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets around Taiwan's Parliament on Sunday to voice their opposition to a trade pact with China, part of a nearly 2-week-old protest that is challenging the president's policy of moving the democratic island economically closer to China. Full Story | Top |
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