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  1. Falls Are Top Cause of Injury, Death Among Elderly HealthDay - Sat Jul 19, 11:45 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    SATURDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Falls are a leading cause of serious injury and death among elderly people in the United States, and most of those falls occur in the home, says the American Geriatric Society (AGS).

  2. Dr. Anna Pou talks during an interview in Metairie, La., Monday, July 14, 2008. Dr. Pou says new legislation designed to protect medical personnel during a disaster is a case of something good growing out of something bad. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    La. doctor cleared in patient deaths recalls storm AP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    NEW ORLEANS - Trapped in a hospital with 2,000 people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Anna Pou recalls her throat burning from the rancid smell.

  3. A collapsed crane is visible within the LyondellBasell Houston Refinery, Friday, July 18, 2008 in Houston.. One of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed at a Houston oil refinery Friday, killing four workers and injuring seven others in the latest of several fatal accidents that have raised concerns about the safety of construction cranes.(AP Photo/The Houston Chronicle, Steve Ueckert)
    Investigation of Houston crane collapse begins AP - Sat Jul 19, 11:38 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    HOUSTON - Federal investigators on Saturday began trying to figure out why one of the world's largest mobile cranes toppled over, killing four contract workers and injuring seven others.

  4. A drought in New South Wales drops the water levels at Lake Eucumbene to record levels, 2007. A report on the state of Australia's largest river system revealed that up to a million people could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues.(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)
    Drought threatens drinking water for a million Australians AFP - Sun Jul 20, 5:38 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues, a report on the state of the nation's largest river system revealed Sunday.

  5. Penguins rescued off the coast of Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian Coast Guard are seen at the Niteroi Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, July 18, 2008. According to officials, over 400 baby penguins have been found dead on the state's shores over the past two months. While large numbers of penguins arrive on Rio de Janeiro's beaches every year, swept to sea by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, this year is seeing higher numbers and more dead penguins than usual. (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes)
    Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

  6. Actors (L-R) Chin Han, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, and director Christopher Nolan pose for photographers for the premiere of the film The Dark Knight in New York, July 14, 2008. REUTERS/Keith Bedford
    Batman breaks Spider-Man record at box office Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 2:27 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new Batman movie "The Dark Knight" smashed the weekend record set by "Spider-Man 3" last year, selling an estimated $155.3 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday.

  7. Alabama man turns 112, still spends days drawing AP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals — and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.

  8. In this Thursday, July 17, 2008 image made from video and provided Friday, July 18 by KDKA-TV, Andrea Curry-Demus, center, is seen after being arrested at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh. Investigators found the body of a woman with her hands bound on Friday at the apartment of Curry-Demus, who showed up at the hospital with a newborn she falsely claimed was her's but later said she had obtained for $1,000, authorities said. (AP Photo/KDKA-TV)
    Woman in W.Pa. baby mystery charged with homicide AP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    PITTSBURGH - A woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant woman's uterus and stealing the baby has been charged with homicide, unlawful restraint and kidnapping, police said Sunday.

  9. Police stand outside Liverpool Magistrates Court in Liverpool, north west England. Britain is struggling to get to grips with a surge of fatal knife attacks, which analysts say reflects a growing sense of insecurity on the country's streets.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)
    Country grapples with surge of knife attacks AFP - Sun Jul 20, 5:46 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    LONDON (AFP) - Britain is struggling to get to grips with a surge of fatal knife attacks, which analysts say reflects a growing sense of insecurity on the country's streets.

  10. Fourth Dwarf Planet Named For Polynesian God SPACE.com - Sun Jul 20, 3:03 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    A dwarf planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system's new class of plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Saturday.

  11. ALL BUSINESS: Don't count on ailing-dollar bailout AP - Fri Jul 18, 12:28 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    NEW YORK - Federal rescue plans are all the rage in Washington right now, for what seems to be everything but the dollar. The U.S. currency is not going to get a bailout, even though its steep decline is feeding inflation and straining the economy.

  12. A gas price sign is shown in McKinney, Texas, Friday, July 18, 2008. Prices at the pump backed away from record highs as oil futures edged up Friday, but crude's gains were modest in comparison to the spectacular three-day drop earlier in the week. The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)
    Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses AP - Sun Jul 20, 7:29 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    WASHINGTON - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.

  13. In this Dec. 16, 2005 file photo, a Bolivian saleswomen shows coca leafs in the Coca Market in downtown in La Paz, Bolivia. Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. Bolivian President Evo Morales, once the leader of a powerful coca growers' union, is now asking coca farmers to supplement their crops with rice and corn as a way of holding down coca production while helping to feed South America's poorest country. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez, File)
    Food rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice AP - Sun Jul 20, 11:15 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    SINAHOTA, Bolivia - Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient.

  14. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., answers question during an Associated Press interview in New York, Saturday, July 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web AP - Sun Jul 20, 1:48 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    NEW YORK - If Sen. John McCain is really serious about becoming a Web-savvy citizen, perhaps Kathryn Robinson can help.

  15. Children treated abroad as U.S. doctors push for devices Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 8:19 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Every year, Chicago-based cardiologist Ziyad Hijazi accompanies two or three children and their families to his native Jordan for heart operations using medical devices that are not approved in the United States.

  16. This photo released by the State of Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General shows Joshua Lipton, right, posing at a 2006 Halloween party while wearing a prisoner costume of a striped shirt and orange jumpsuit labeled 'Jail Bird.' The photo was made two weeks after Lipton was charged in a drunk driving car crash that seriously injured a woman. It was posted on the social networking Web site Facebook, which made it available to the prosecutor who used the image to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed and sentenced Lipton in May 2008 to two years in prison. (AP Photo/State of Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General)
    Web networking photos come back to bite defendants AP - Sun Jul 20, 2:14 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

  17. Report: British hostage in Iraq is dead AP - Sun Jul 20, 12:37 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    LONDON - A Shiite militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago said one of its hostages committed suicide, a British newspaper reported.

  18. Instructor Jessica Leonard, left, talks with Alison Ross after a class at Fort Campbell, Ky., April 15, 2008. The class is for spouses of soldiers at Fort Campbell, and helps them to deal with Army life. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
    As wars lengthen, toll on military families mounts AP - Sun Jul 20, 7:32 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help.

  19. Tiereny Lloyd of Odenton, Md., picks up her repaired shoes from Alexandria Shoe Repair and Leather Service in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday July 10, 2008. 'A younger crowd who lives in the disposable world are now realizing they can have their shoes repaired,' store owner Barbara Steube said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    Consumers change buying habits, but will it last? AP - Sun Jul 20, 1:15 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    NEW YORK - Adrienne Radtke plans to keep riding her bike to work even if gas prices drop. Steve Pizzini got rid of his Cadillac Escalade in favor of a 16-year-old Acura and doesn't expect to have another gas-guzzler.

  20. People walk along the Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida in May. Reeling from a real estate collapse and battered by hurricanes, Floridians can at least take heart from one economic bright spot: European tourists are coming to spend, spend, spend.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
    As dollar slides, European tourists flock to Florida AFP - Sun Jul 20, 12:21 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    MIAMI (AFP) - Reeling from a real estate collapse and battered by hurricanes, Floridians can at least take heart from one economic bright spot: European tourists are coming to spend, spend, spend.

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