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Some experts and parents say the difficult task of letting go as their children go off to college is getting even harder.
A World Health Organization official is defending the agency's actions during last year's swine flu outbreak.
The airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing nine people including four foreign tourists.
A "never-ending disaster" is how a U.N. official is describing the situation in Pakistan after the devastating floods of this year's monsoon season.
Las Vegas-based Righthaven is seeking unspecified damages in its complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
The New York City Fire Department says a Manhattan sanitation pier that was the site of a smoky fire will need to be checked for stability.
JetBlue Airways says there will be no second exits for famed flight attendant Steven Slater -- who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand.
Crew members from Kentucky and Florida have been identified as the two people killed when a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff outside Dubai.
An Iranian woman who'd already been condemned to death faces another sentence of 99 lashes because of a case of mistaken identity in a photograph, according to foes of the execution.
Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.
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