Missing GIs Might Be Alive

As another deadly attack claims the lives of 15 U.S. soldiers, a massive search continues in Iraq to find kidnapped troops. Top brass believes they could still be alive.
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Teen Scales Seven Summits

Samantha Larson, a California teen, is the youngest person to scale the seven summits, the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents, including Mt. Everest.
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Schools Out For Fire: Blaze Guts Garfield H.S.

(Los Angeles) Classes are cancelled at Garfield High School, where the movie 'Stand and Deliver' was based and filmed upon in East Los Angeles.
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13 dead in mudslides

Heavy rains have caused major mudslides throughout Colombia. At least thirteen people are dead and vital highways blocked. Among those killed were a 70-year-old woman. Three mine workers were also killed and six injured after a wall of earth a rocks fell as they were working
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Cutty Sark ablaze

Fire has torn through one of Britain's most well-known maritime treasures, the Cutty Sark. The 19th-century ship was the world's last surviving tea clipper. Cutty Sark had been closed for major renovation work, and with about half the ship removed from the site, it's hoped a full restoration is still possible.
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Fmr. Creed Frontman Arrested For Domestic Abuse

(Miami) Former Creed frontman, Scott Alan Stapp, was arrested at his home Sunday and charged with assault related to domestic violence, authorities said.
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Champions League final

As thousands of soccer fans get set to flood Athens for the Champions League final, authorities have prepared a plan of action.
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Will North Texas Host The 2011 Super Bowl?

(Dallas) Excitement is running high in Arlington where Super Bowl 2011 could be played. Arlington is competing against Arizona and Indianapolis. The city will know Tuesday if its regional proposal pays off.
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Tracy's Perspective: Water Issues Looming Over Texas

(Dallas) Water is our state's most precious commodity. Nothing can function without water. Our cities and our farms would simply dry up and blow away without water. And in parts of Texas, water is already at a premium.
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Firefighters Make Progress Fighting Gorman Blaze

Los Angeles) The wildfire is nearly 80 percent contained, after burning 2,500 acres.
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Woman, 70, Critically Burned In Inglewood Apartment Fire

(Los Angeles) Juanita Williams was burned over 70 percent of her body from her burning apartment.
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New Evidence in Stebic Case Could Indicate Foul Play

(Chicago) No one has been named a suspect, but many in Plainfield are talking about Lisa Stebic in the past tense since new evidence has surfaced as CBS 2's Katie McCall reports.
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Wayward Whales Could Be Homeward Bound

Two whales that swam up the San Joaquin delta to Sacramento have changed course, and are now swimming back toward the Pacific Ocean.
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Stallone fined by Australian court

Stallone was fined $2500USD after being stopped by customs officers in Sydney. The actor didn't attend court, but through lawyers admitted the incident and apologised.
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Miss Universe Contenders Gather in Mexico

Dresses adorned with butterfly wings, dolphins, electric guitars and corn on the cob were onstage in downtown Mexico City on Sunday as the 2007 Miss Universe pageant contestants put on a fashion show.
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Lebanon violence hits Beirut

The blast took place in the mainly Christian area of Beirut's east. The death comes after 50 people were killed in Lebanon's northern port city Tripoli after battles between the Lebanese army and Sunni Islamist militants.
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Dirty Cities: A New Environmental Report

A new environmental report has listed what it claims are the worst polluted hotspots in the world with three Russian cities falling in the top ten.
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Israel rolls out portable shelters

Israel has started positioning portable rocket attack shelters in the town of Sderot. The shelters are designed to withstand a direct hit from several types of rocket. Sderot has been hit by thousands of rockets in the past seven years, fired from Gaza and Lebanon.
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Tens of thousands rally in Turkey

Demonstrators waving red national flags filled the streets of Samsun to protest against the Islamist-rooted government. The rally, the latest in a series of protests, was billed by organisers as a way of uniting the divided opposition against the government which they accuse of trying to undermine the secular state in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey.
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Indonesia lashed by huge waves

Massive waves kill one person and damage hundreds of homes on Indonesia's coastlines for the third day. The waves receded to 1.5-2 metres in some parts but weather officials still warned fishermen against sailing in the Java Sea and forbade people from surfing on the popular Kuta beach in the tourist island of Bali.
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Afghan suicide bomb kills many

The Taliban says it carried a suicide bombing in a crowded market in southeastern Afghanistan. Foreign troops were among the casualties of the suicide attack on a crowded market in southeastern Afghanistan. The Taliban has stepped up its attacks against western forces and their Afghan allies since the death of the insurgents' top operational commander, Mullah Dadullah, in a U.S.-led coalition raid last weekend. On Saturday, three German soldiers were among nine people killed by a suicide bomber in a busy market in the relatively quiet northern city of Kunduz.
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Australian Detainee Back From Guantanamo

Confessed Australian al-Qaida supporter David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison in his hometown on Sunday after spending more than five years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Ian Schrager On His Hotels

Hotel tycoon Ian Schrager of "Studio 54" fame owns hotels in New York and London and is now set to conquer Miami and Las Vegas. He talks to Anthony Mason about his ambition and challenges.
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Moore: Government Investigation Is 'Harrassment'

Director Michael Moore, who is in Cannes, France, for his movie 'Sicko' is critical of a government investigation looking into a trip he made to Cuba as part of the movie.
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'Snake Village' celebrates festival

A Vietnamese town, dubbed 'Snake Village' celebrates its annual snake festival with parades, rituals and special snake cuisine. The festival combines sombre ceremony, music and performance art-- typical of traditional folk events that have been revived in communist-run Vietnam in recent decades.
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