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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A cathedral made from cardboard....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A cathedral made from cardboard....

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Two former guerrilla leaders were vying for East Timor's presidency Monday, each hoping to steer the young, often-troubled nation after U.N. peacekeeping troops begin their planned withdrawal later this year....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus items recovered from the wreckage miles underwater....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus items recovered from the wreckage miles underwater....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Starting next year, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive Social Security and other government benefits....

The devastation from tornadoes that touched down in Kansas and Iowa Sunday left many families without homes, but no fatalities were reported in either state. Community officials in both states credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives. The tragedy left many with damaged or destroyed homes, such as the Marquette, Kansas, house of Kevin and Zoey Patrick, which was reduced to a pile of rubble. Just as Marquette residents scoured through the rubble of their homes, so to...

The devastation from tornadoes that touched down in Kansas and Iowa Sunday left many families without homes, but no fatalities were reported in either state. Community officials in both states credited days of urgent warnings from forecasters for saving lives. The tragedy left many with damaged or destroyed homes, such as the Marquette, Kansas, house of Kevin and Zoey Patrick, which was reduced to a pile of rubble. Just as Marquette residents scoured through the rubble of their homes, so to...

ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a watery grave....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Though physically absent, Cuba cast a big shadow over this Caribbean port at a summit of 30 Western Hemisphere leaders that ended Sunday....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The search for four yacht crew members thrown from their boat during a weekend race off Northern California was indefinitely suspended, with the Coast Guard saying the "window of survivability" had passed....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Though physically absent, Cuba cast a big shadow over this Caribbean port at a summit of 30 Western Hemisphere leaders that ended Sunday....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama, speaking for the first time about allegations that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes, said Sunday that "of course I'll be angry" if those accusations are proven true by an investigation....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....