SETH BORENSTEIN,Associated Press VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. Lake Vostok could hold living organisms that have been locked [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 U.S. commander in Afghanistan says the U.S. military will begin sending advisory teams this year to help Afghan combat forces as they take a more prominent role in fighting the Taliban insurgency. The plan as described by Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti is for U.S. and other international troops to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. [...]
GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Twenty-nine Chinese workers abducted by rebels in Sudan more than a week ago have been released and flown to Kenya by the Red Cross, the group said Tuesday. The rebels attacked a road construction site where the Chinese were working on Jan. 28, taking 29 hostages, while 17 managed [...]
