Former soldier leaves internet cafe, saves cop from rioting mob, rescues man from canal, carries another guy to an ambulance and chases off two guys looting a police van.

A Jordanian-flagged ship carrying sugar, an aid donation to Somalia, is seized by pirates off Mogadishu.

The space agency is preparing a touchdown on the red planet by a probe built from spare parts

The language of the internal party memo was stark and brutally honest. Sent out by Republican congressman Tom Davis last week after a stunning congressional by-election loss in the Deep South, it warned colleagues of a potential disaster ahead.

Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association said.

New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living in that water would be located deeper than scientists had suspected.

Six railroad cars derailed about 2:20 a.m. today; two of the tank cars are leaking. The substance, according to Cpl. Paul Mouton of the Lafayette Police Department, is believed to be hydrochloric acid.

A surgical team in Calgary on Friday extolled the virtues of using a robotic arm to perform groundbreaking surgery to remove a woman's brain tumor.