Posted: 8:37 AM Hundreds of truckers plan to jam part of central London to protest the rising price of fuel.

Posted: 12:35 PM Chinese officials say the earthquake death toll in one province alone has climbed by nearly 14,000 in the past two days to more than 55,000.

Updated: 12:29 PM The humpback is making a comeback.

Posted: 12:17 PM A crucial two-hour meeting between the U.N. Head and military leaders in reclusive Myanmar today may have produced a breakthrough for cyclone victims.

Posted: 9:17 AM The latest fear from central China's devastating earthquake is flooding from new lakes that could be unleashed by more aftershocks.

Posted: 12:24 PM U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is on the diplomatic mission of a lifetime. He hopes to persuade Myanmar's military regime to open its border to international relief efforts.

Posted: 9:52 AM China has concluded a three-day mourning period for earthquake victims with a toned-down resumption of the Olympic torch relay.

Posted: 2:55 PM When the little guy got lost, he did just what he had been taught recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

Posted: 2:46 PM Myanmar's military rulers fear an American invasion intended to seize the country's oil.

Posted: 2:41 PM Help is tantalizingly close, but still being denied to hundreds of thousands of disaster survivors in Myanmar.

Posted: 9:39 AM Nine days after the 7.9 earthquake that killed more than 41,000 people in Central China, the massive recovery effort has prompted Beijing to order some belt-tightening.

Updated: 8:47 AM Bad weather in Europe led to a huge shortage in specialty hops that many microbreweries use for their lagers and ales, rising the costs of craft beers to lager lovers.

Posted: 1:46 PM A top World Bank official says the bank won't give financial aid or a loan to cyclone-hit Myanmar because of its outstanding debts.

Posted: 1:37 PM More staggering numbers from the earthquake in central China.

Posted: 11:51 AM President Bush has called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to apologize after an american sniper used a copy of the quran for target practice.

Posted: 11:08 AM Myanmar's military government has announced a three-day mourning period for victims of the deadly cyclone. It begins tomorrow.

Posted: 10:43 AM The financial toll from china's massive earthquake is mounting a week after the tremor struck.

Updated: 12:25 PM China has marked the one week anniversary of a massive earthquake with a solemn observance. Meanwhile, the search for survivors in the disaster area has become a search for bodies.

Posted: 2:39 PM A Chinese state news agency says new aftershocks have cut off roads and telecommunications in quake-hit Sichuan province, burying a number of vehicles.

Posted: 9:00 AM The International Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days.

Posted: 8:03 AM The Sichuan government says the official death toll from Monday's powerful earthquake in the Chinese province has risen to 21,500.

Posted: 2:32 PM Myanmar has announced that a military-backed constitution was overwhelmingly approved by voters in last week's referendum.

Posted: 10:42 AM The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is organizing an emergency team it hopes to send to Myanmar to assess the humanitarian crisis triggered by a cyclone more than a week and a-half ago.

Posted: 10:21 AM China is ordering 100 more helicopters into areas devastated by this week's earthquake.

Posted: 8:15 AM President Bush is preparing to deliver a speech of unwavering U.S. support for Israel when he stands before the Israeli parliament.