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China nixes U.S. meetings over Taiwan arms

China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the U.S. in reaction to last week's announcement that the U.S. is selling weapons to Taiwan, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.


Tropical Storm Marco forms in Gulf of Mexico

The 13th tropical depression of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season formed Monday in the Bay of Campeche, just off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said.


Large asteroid could put on show over Earth

A meteor, or shooting star, is usually the size of a pebble, or even a grain of sand, burning up in the atmosphere.


Storms bring food shortages back for Cubans

Many Cubans thought they'd left behind forever the grim, hungry days that were the norm just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, with it, the loss of billions of dollars in subsidies for the Communist state.


Fla. Toddler Rescued After Dangling From Carnival Ride

Florida carnival-goers made a daring rescue of a toddler Saturday night after it had been dangling from a ride after a possible malfunction, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.


South Africa's Ruling Party on the Verge of Splitting Up


A Saggy-Pants Furor in Riviera Beach


6 die in family murder-suicide in upscale LA home

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said Monday....


Car crashes through Charlottetown courthouse

A Charlottetown woman has been arrested after her car slammed through the front doors of the P.E.I. Supreme Court building on Water Street early Monday.


Nostalgic flight home for historic bush plane

A 70-year-old old bush plane, a mode of transport that was once the only means of moving supplies and people around northern Saskatchewan, has returned to the U.S. after coming "home" for a visit.