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  • New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:44:20 GMT)

    A sign advertising a reduced price is seen in front of a home for sale in Richmond, California, June 2008. US home sales have fallen another 2.6 percent in June as inventories rose and prices fell with buyers still hesitant in the face of a horrific market slump, industry data has shown.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.


  • Obama to visit with Sarkozy in France today (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:55:50 GMT)

    U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to spectators as he leaves his hotel in Berlin on Friday, July 25, 2008. Obama departs to Paris, his next stop on his Europe tour. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Friday was France's turn to greet Barack Obama who was to visit Paris just long enough for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, but no rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin despite his solid French fan club.


  • Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:47:11 GMT)

    In this photo released by the Media Affairs Division of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Qantas pilot Capt. John Francis Bartels looks at the right wing damaged fuselage of Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 after it made an emergency landing Friday July 25, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. The plane en route to Australia from London made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday and airport authorities discovered a big hole in the Boeing 747-400's fuselage near the right wing. (AP Photo/Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Edwin Loobrera, HO)AP - A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers over the South China Sea forced the pilot to make an emergency landing Friday after a rapid descent.


  • Texas officials urge residents to stay home (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:10:28 GMT)

    A man wades through a flooded street after Hurricane Dolly hit the area in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Officials said no deaths were reported in Mexico from Dolly, which struck land just north of the border in Texas Wednesday. It ripped off roofs, flooded roads and downed power lines, but the Rio Grande levees held strong. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - South Texas was getting back on its feet Friday as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power.


  • 47 dead, 100 missing in Congo boat accident (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:06:18 GMT)
    AP - At least 47 people died when a motorized boat sank on a river in Congo, and more than 100 people are missing, a district official said Friday.
  • Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:31:54 GMT)

    In this Sept. 3, 2006 file photo, a spectator watches the aurora borealis rise above the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, Alaska. On Thursday, July 24, 2008, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky. (AP Photo/M. Scott Moon, File)AP - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.


  • Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports (AP) ( Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:47:34 GMT)

    Traders work in the oil futures pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Oil prices rose Thursday after shedding nearly $4 a barrel in the previous day's session on concerns that high fuel prices are dampening demand in the world's biggest energy consuming country. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.