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 Mount Shasta glaciers growing, despite warmingGlobal warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.
China National bids $2.5B for Awilco Offshore
China National Offshore Oil Corp.'s oil-services company said Monday it will offer about $2.5 billion for Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA.  Liver donor's family, recipient unite onlineThey were precocious toddlers, both blond-haired and blue-eyed, separated by a thousand miles between Miami and a small Kentucky town.
Philippine blast kills 3, injures 11
Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company, officials said.
Cross in the Woods needs repairs for rotting wood
The Cross in the Woods, a northern Lower Michigan religious landmark, is suffering from wood rot and needs hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs, a local priest says.
Philippine rebels stage more attacks
Communist rebels killed two soldiers in a public market and torched a cellular phone tower in the southern Philippines as the latest flare-up in the 40-year-old insurgency showed no sign of abating, officials said Tuesday.
Sampling finds unaccounted-for whale meat in Japan
Forensic-style DNA sampling of whale meat in Japanese markets turned up fin whales that can't be accounted for, Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute reports.
Forehead bruised, Colbert fights `face violence'
With a bruised forehead, Stephen Colbert has found a new cause celebre: fighting the glamorization of "face violence."
More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees resettled
More than 30,000 Myanmar refugees living in camps in Thailand have been sent to third countries in what the United Nations said Wednesday had become the world's largest refugee resettlement operation.
Russia plans to hold military exercises in Arctic
A senior Russian general says Russia will conduct military exercises in the Arctic to uphold the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources.
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