Firefighting Efforts Save Southern California Neighbor

The mayor of Los Angeles and residents of a city neighborhood are praising firefighters for saving the Griffith Park section of the city, including a famous observatory.
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First Person: Woman Survives Shark Attack

A big gray shark chomps on the leg of a 63-year-old woman in Hawaii. But despite a bloody foot, the woman manages to swim to shore.
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Internet appeal for missing toddler

It's six days since Madeleine disappeared from her bed at the Ocean Club holiday resort in the seaside village of Praia da Luz in Portugal's Southwest Algarve region as her parents, Kate and Gerry, dined just yards away. An internet appeal asking for help in tracing Madeleine has now been launched in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
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Pope arrives in Brazil

Pope Benedict promised in his speech to give priority to the poor, the young and to indigenous peoples. More than 1 million people are expected at an outdoor mass on Friday in Sao Paulo, where the Pope will canonize the 18th-century Friar Antonio Galvao, the first Brazilian-born saint.
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Mickey Mouse-like Figure Preaches Islamic Fight

A program using a Mickey Mouse-like character telling children to work for world Islamic domination gets yanked off the air. It aired on Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV.
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A Decade in Office: Tony Blair Stepping Down

As British Prime Minister, Tony Blair has lived through a decade of political triumphs, along with war and terrorism. He snared three consecutive election victories, but now he's leaving office.
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Cheney in Iraq

Vice President Cheney made a surprise stopover in Iraq while Washington debates war funding. The trip signals growing U.S. impatience at Iraq's failure to reach key political milestones as the U.S. builds up forces to secure Baghdad.
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New Iraq Bill Could Lead to New Fight

President Bush is threatening to veto a new Iraq spending bill sponsored by Democrats; the bill would fund troops through July, then allow Congress to cut funding if the situation doesn't improve.
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Reducing one protein prevents Alzheimers symptoms in mice

(Insidermedicine) Lowering the level of one protein involved in Alzheimer s disease appears to prevent some of its disabling symptoms, according to a report published in the journal Science.
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Early Start to Hurricane Season: Storm Off Coast

The first named storm of the year formed Wednesday off the southeastern coast, more than three weeks before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Coffee Roasting Goes Green

Brothers David and Mike Hartkop of Pueblo, Colo., have invented a coffee roaster that uses the rays of the sun. Their customers say the Joe tastes better than ever.
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Transatlantic trip for solar-powered boat

"Sun 21" has completed a transatlantic trip from Basel, Switzerland to New York City. Five men, travelled 7,000 nautical miles on the solar powered catamaran -- taking almost 7 months to do so.
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King Herod's tomb uncovered

Archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great, the Roman empire's "king of the Jews" in ancient Judea. Academics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said the discovery was made at Herodium, where Herod's hilltop fortress palace once stood, some 12 km from the holy city where he had rebuilt and expanded the Jewish Temple.
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Baby boom at Mexican Zoo

The Puerto Vallarta Zoo is celebrating the births of nine feline cubs in the past two months. International tourists have welcomed the chance to see the cubs and to play with them at the zoo.
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AUSTRALIA GETS FREE HUGS

"All you need is love" could be the motto of an Australian man whose desire to embrace complete strangers has sparked a worldwide hugging craze and made him a star.
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TURKEY'S TOURISM INDUSTRY WARY OF POLITICAL UNREST

As Turkey prepares for its tourist season, storm clouds are gathering -- a journalist murdered, Christians killed, police violence, tense exchanges between the powerful armed forces and the Islamist-based government. But the tourist industry seems optimistic that this year will be better than 2006, which was hit by bird flu and terrorism fears. A voiced report from western Turkey.
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