Jul 24 - By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press Writer
The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" — where there is too little oxygen in the water for anything to live — is less than half the size predicted earlier this year but also unusually severe, a scientist said Friday.

Jun 3 - By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer
Air France Flight 447 vanished in a zone of ferocious weather over the Atlantic Ocean known as the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms — just as the plane was encountering a 400-mile-long maze of lightning, hail, driving rain and fierce 100-mph updrafts.
Apr 10 - By Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Associated Press Writer
The pirate standoff with the U.S. Navy has burned Somalia into the West's consciousness as a base for lawlessness and terror, but the hostage crisis illuminates a potentially dangerous picture confronting a far greater area.
Mar 27 - By Andrew O. Selsky, Associated Press Writer
A former State Department lawyer responsible for Guantanamo-related cases said Friday that the Bush administration overreacted after 9/11 and set up a system in which torture occurred.
Mar 24 - By James Hannah, Associated Press Writer
About 150 people carrying folders stuffed with resumes streamed into a job fair as it opened Tuesday to meet with about 30 potential employers in a basketball arena.

Oct 2 - By Matt Siegel, Associated Press Writer
Patrols by European Union monitors may help bring a sense of returning normalcy to the Russian-occupied swaths of Georgia, but they're coming too late for Zviad Artvadze's peace of mind.
Jul 23 - By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press Writer
The oxygen-starved "dead zone" that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico is a bit smaller than predicted this year because Hurricane Dolly stirred up the water, a scientist reported Monday.

Jul 12 - By Associated Press
The border along Hungary these days is lined with police sporting night-vision goggles, heat sensors and all-terrain vehicles.
Jun 20 - By Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area the size of Maryland.

May 24 - By Associated Press
Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.

May 4 - By Bradley Brooks, Associated Press Writer
Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and even condos in the heart of Baghdad.
Apr 1 - By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press Writer
A woman wrapped in a dirty abaya sits beneath a tree in the Green Zone, her palms turned upward awaiting the kindness of strangers.

Mar 22 - By Associated Press
Shiite militants are hammering the U.S.-protected Green Zone with rockets and mortars for the fourth day this week.
Mar 12 - By Rick Callahan-592, AP Writer
The water bottles, plastic foam plates and other trash discarded by American troops in Iraq's mess halls may soon be serving double-duty — as an unlikely power source to illuminate barracks and power up laptops.

Mar 6 - By John Rogers-443, AP Writer
What the @$%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.

Dec 20 - By Paul Ames, Associated Press Writer
European leaders celebrated the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic on Friday as many of the European Union's newest members joined the EU's passport-free zone.

Dec 17 - By Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press Writer
Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
Jul 31 - By Michael Graczyk, Associated Press Writer
Fresh water pouring into the Gulf of Mexico after weeks of flooding in Texas has created an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that threatens sea life, a researcher said Tuesday.
May 3 - By Associated Press
Four Filipino contractors working for the U.S. government were killed in a rocket attack on the heavily fortified Green Zone, the American Embassy said Thursday.

May 1 - By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press Writer
Mortar rounds slammed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone on Tuesday, with one striking within 100 yards of the Iraqi prime minister's offices, a government official said. No casualties were reported.

Aug 6 - By Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer
Bottom fish and crabs washing up dead on Oregon beaches are being killed by a recurring "dead zone" of low-oxygen water that is larger than in previous years and may be triggered by global warming, scientists said.

Mar 24 - By Associated Press
It doesn't take much to make Dick Cheney at home on the road: Diet Sprite, a pot of coffee — both sans caffeine — and a TV tuned to Fox News Channel.