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An airplane seat, a life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean today by Brazilian military pilots searching for a missing Air France airliner.

Global Humanitarian Forum, led by Annan, states that global warming already leading to mass deaths as result of disease, malnutrition.

A cyclone that tore into southern Bangladesh and eastern India has killed at least 168 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to relief workers and news agencies.

Two more New York City residents, a 41-year-old from Queens and a 34-year-old from Brooklyn, have died .

Police in Austria say up to 30 people have been wounded, nine severely, in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Vienna.

The wife of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis was found dead at her home Wednesday. Police said the cause of death hasn't been determined. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said deputies found the body of 39-year-old Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis on the floor of the master bedroom in the family's suburban home shortly after noon.

The U.S. military said Wednesday at least 20 civilians and 60 insurgents died in a disputed U.S.-Taliban clash earlier this month, ...

An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a residential area in east Java early Wednesday, killing 97 people, military officials said.

Walking through an Albuquerque, New Mexico, park a passerby made a startling discovery -- a tiny black and lime shoe protruding from beneath the playground sand.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has confirmed two more deaths from swine flu, bringing the death toll to 66, the health secretary said Friday. Tests have confirmed 239 more cases for a total of 2,895 cases, including the deaths, said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova. The numbers jumped because officials were able to process more backlogged cases.
The deaths represent 2.3 percent of the total cases, showing the illness is less deadly than initially feared, Cordova said.

The last death was May 10.