

At least 25 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by wildfires sweeping through western Russia, authorities said Saturday.

The Army private charged with leaking an airstrike video and downloading documents remained in solitary confinement Saturday.

The death toll from flooding in Pakistan has risen to at least 800, the information minister of a northern province said Saturday.
After the stormA magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit southern Iran on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, a day after another moderate quake in the country's northeast left 170 people injured.

President Barack Obama hopes embattled New York congressman Charlie Rangel can end his career with dignity.





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Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire Saturday as flames encroached on power lines that provide electricity throughout the region.
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www.bdgrafik.deA South Dakota ranch worker who found a record-setting hailstone says the chunks of ice falling from the sky sounded like "big bricks" being thrown at his house.

Drew Carey has been known as a loveable, teddy-bear type as far back as his long-running sitcom "The Drew Carey Show." But, he says, being big was a burden -- and he had to make a change.