NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again faced the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed. ... > full story
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — Tropical Storm Gustav pulled away from Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after killing 23 people and threatened to become a major hurricane aimed at New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — Stocks rose on Wednesday as surprisingly strong data on durable goods orders soothed some concern about the sluggish economy while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led a rally in financial shares. ... > full story
MOSCOW, Aug. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — A strong earthquake hit the Lake Baikal area of eastern Siberia on Wednesday, triggering panic, but there were no immediate signs of casualties or major damage, officials said. ... > full story
BISHKEK, Aug. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Kyrgyzstan announced a national day of mourning for Tuesday after 65 people died at the weekend in one of the tiny Central Asian state's worst air disasters. ... > full story
LOS CABOS, Aug. 24, 2008 (Reuters) — Tropical Storm Julio drenched Mexico's Baja California on Sunday and hundreds of residents fled poor neighborhoods that were in danger of flooding near the popular tourist resort of Los Cabos. ... > full story
KABUL, Aug. 24, 2008 (Reuters) — A NATO-chartered helicopter crashed on Sunday in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, near the border with Pakistan, causing some casualties, a spokesman for the alliance said. ... > full story
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Aug. 24, 2008 (Reuters) — Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression late on Saturday after making a record fourth landfall in Florida and drenching the state's northern panhandle with heavy rainfall. ... > full story
BEIJING, Aug. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — A second earthquake in two days in the same county of southwest China killed at least three people, injured more than 100 and prompted the evacuation of over 120,000, state media reported on Friday. ... > full story
MADRID, Aug. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Grieving relatives on Thursday tried to identify charred bodies from the wreckage of a Spanish jet which crashed at Madrid airport on its second attempt at takeoff after mechanical problems. ... > full story
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Foreclosure Prevention Picking Up Speed Aug. 27, 2008 (CNBC) — New numbers are out today from the Hope Now Alliance. You may remember last fall, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced this new effort ...
Fannie, Freddie shares rise Aug. 27, 2008 (Businessweek) — Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac climbed for a third-straight day Wednesday, as analysts raised doubts about whether a bailout of the two ...
Heat gauge problem in plane that crashed in... Aug. 21, 2008 (ABC 7 Chicago (WLS)) — Spanair says the plane that crashed in Madrid experienced overheating in an air intake valve prior to a first attempt at takeoff. It is not clear ...
Tropical Storms Boris and Cristina June 29, 2008 (AccuWeather) — An active weather pattern has set in over the tropical eastern North Pacific Ocean. As of Sunday morning, local time, there were two tropical ...
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