Officials Moving Fast to Repair California Bridge

California transportation officials have already begun repair work to a highway interchange that collapsed Sunday morning when a tanker truck traveling on the bridge caught fire.

Tanker Fire Causes Highway Collapse

A tanker carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline crashed and caught fire on a California highway interchange; a section of the highway collapsed and will cause major disruptions for commuters.

Motorists' lucky escape

Drivers had a lucky escape after a vital stretch of highway in San Francisco collapsed. The fly-over caved in after a fuel truck crashed and ignited, sending flames more than 60 metres into the air. The flames burned through the upper deck of a highway interchange in Bay Bridge. The same section of the highway collapsed in a 1989 earthquake.

Mini summit on Darfur

The ministers in attendance called for increased diplomatic efforts under the aegis of the AU and U.N. to end the Darfur conflict which has killed at least 200,000 people and displaced some 2.5 million, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Four dead after Kansas shootings

Kansas City Missouri police say a man pulled into a parking lot outside the mall that was filled with "hundreds and hundreds" of shoppers and immediately fatally shot two people who were parked on each side of him. The gunman went into the mall and wounded at least two other people.

Democrat Talks Impeachment

Democratic Congressional leader John Murtha is listing impeachment as one way to handle the situation in Iraq.

Star Trek's Scotty is beamed up

The ashes of James Doohan, better known as 'Scotty' from 'Star Trek' are launched into space on a rocket. Actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty on "Star Trek," finally made it to space on Saturday (April 28), on board a rocket containing some of his ashes. Remains of the Canadian-born actor, who died two years ago at the age of 85, hurtled to the edge of space aboard a telephone pole-size rocket that blasted off from a desert launching ground in New Mexico.

Art amidst war

They've been erected to protect the city but a team of 40 artists has decided to make concrete barriers in Baghdad works of art. They're painting a one-kilometre barrier with murals of colourful desert landscapes and proud moments in Iraqi history. The walls have been the subject of intense debate among Iraqis this week after the U.S. military began surrounding a Sunni area in northern Baghdad with them.