Twenty suspected insurgents were killed in clashes with Afghan soldiers and coalition forces Friday in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. The 27-year-old lost a public battle with cervical cancer last month, prompting sympathy and headlines around the world. Wreaths included one in the shape of a pink heart and another that resembled a blue handbag. Wellwishers cheered and threw flowers as the cortege slowly made its way through Bermondsey, south London, where Goody grew up ...

Thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of south and east London Saturday for the funeral of controversial reality TV star Jade Goody. The 27-year-old lost a public battle with cervical cancer last month, prompting sympathy and headlines around the world. Wreaths included one in the shape of a pink heart and another that resembled a blue handbag. Wellwishers cheered and threw flowers as the cortege slowly made its way through Bermondsey, south London, where Goody ...

Thousands of well-wishers are expected to line the streets of east London on Saturday for the funeral of controversial reality TV star Jade Goody. The 27-year-old lost a public battle with cervical cancer last month, prompting sympathy and headlines around the world. Goody had burst into the spotlight in the British version of "Big Brother" in 2002 but attracted global notoriety five years later when she made racist comments -- for which she later apologized -- to Indian ...

A search will continue Thursday in the Black Hills of South Dakota for a Nebraska family that has been missing since March 20. Investigators think Matthew Schade of Creighton, Nebraska; his wife, Rowena; and their two children -- a daughter, 11, and a son, 8 -- might have gone camping on U.S. Forest Service property in the Black Hills. Schade had visited the area in the past, and the family's Ford Taurus was found nearby in Silver City, ...

Truly appreciating the beauty of Paris is a pleasure that can't be hurried. Take time to wander down its wide boulevards, savour every sip of strong, black coffee and resist the temptation to fall into step with the throng of tourists and sightseers. Our advice to anyone who finds themselves with 24 hours to spare in the French capital is to stop, breathe, appreciate and indulge. Start the day with a walk down the Champs-Élysées. For some, it retains ...

While the Red River level appeared to be dropping early Sunday, Fargo, North Dakota, officials said they were still holding their collective breath. "In past flooding, you have to understand, we've had times in which people thought it crested and then it came back and went up," Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney said. "And our temperature is changing, so we will be reluctant to announce a crest until we truly feel there's been a crest." City Manager Pat Sawyerville ...

"I was a walking time bomb. I knew I had to get on that plane if I wanted to be around to see my grandkids." Sandra Giustina is a 61-year-old uninsured American. For three years she saved her money in hopes of affording heart surgery to correct her atrial fibrillation. "They [U.S. hospitals] told me it would be about $175,000, and there was just no way could I come up with that," Giustina said. So, with a little digging online, ...

President Obama said his administration plans to keep a close watch on and help fight the rising waters in the Dakotas and Minnesota. "Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond and respond urgently," Obama said Saturday in his weekly webcast. "For the people of North and South Dakota and Minnesota who live along rivers spilling over their banks, ...

Mount Redoubt volcano in southern Alaska erupted three times on Friday, shooting ash as high as 51,000 feet, scientists said. The latest eruption took place at 7:25 p.m. (11:25 p.m. ET), the National Weather Service said. That eruption followed one earlier at 5:35 p.m. (9:35 p.m. ET) that produced an ash cloud that rose 40,000 feet above sea level, the National Weather Service said. Another eruption occured at around 8:40 a.m. (12:40 p.m. ET). The eruptions are the latest in ...

Thousands of buildings at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks, a top inspector for the Army says. "It was horrible -- some of the worst electrical work I've ever seen," said Jim Childs, a master electrician and the top civilian expert in an Army safety survey. Childs told CNN that "with the buildings the way they are, we're playing Russian roulette." Childs recently returned from Iraq, where he is ...