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  1. 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.

  2. 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: 4.5

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 - Sun Jul 20, 2:12 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    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.

  5. 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 - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    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.

  6. 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: 4.4

    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."

  7. 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.

  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 identified AP - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.3

    PITTSBURGH - The woman whose body was found with her uterus cut open and who appeared to have been pregnant has been positively identified as an 18-year-old, the Allegheny County medical examiner said Sunday.

  9. In this courtroom sketch reviewed and cleared for release by U.S. military officials, Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan (L) sits flanked by his legal team as army prosecutor Lieutenant-Colonel William Britt speaks at a podium inside a courtroom during a U.S. Military Tribunal arraignment at Guantanamo U.S. Naval Base in Cuba June 4, 2007. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/Pool
    Bin Laden driver faces first Guantanamo trial Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 10:28 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver will face a controversial form of American justice on Monday in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial, 6-1/2 years after the United States opened its prison camp in Cuba to jail fighters in the "war on terror."

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  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: 4.2

    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. 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.

  14. Padraig Harrington of Ireland kisses the trophy after winning the British Open Golf championship, at the Royal Birkdale golf course, Southport, England, Sunday, July 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Thomas)
    Harrington wins British Open, ends Norman's dream AP - 34 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.2

    SOUTHPORT, England - Padraig Harrington's wrist hurt so much he wondered if he could even play in this British Open. Well, it was strong enough to hoist the silver claret jug.

  15. US Under-secretary of State William Burns looks on before a meeting on nuclear issues with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva. Iranians must understand their leaders need to choose between nuclear cooperation or confrontation, which will only lead to further isolation, the US State Department warned Saturday.(AFP/Pool/Denis Balibouse)
    Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation: US AFP - Sat Jul 19, 3:03 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iranians must understand their leaders need to choose between nuclear cooperation or confrontation, which will only lead to further isolation, the US State Department warned Saturday.

  16. Dwarf planet near Pluto named for Polynesian god Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 6:41 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.

  17. Policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul July 19, 2008. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
    Foreign airstrike kills 9 Afghan police: official Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 3:27 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    KABUL (Reuters) - A foreign airstrike killed nine Afghan policemen in western Afghanistan overnight after a clash in which both sides mistook the other for Taliban militants, Afghan officials said on Sunday.

  18. File photo shows a Sri Lankan Army soldier patrolling the 'de facto' frontline in the Jaffna Peninsula, in the north of the island state. More than 5,000 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed by Sri Lanka's military since the beginning of the year, the defence ministry has said(AFP/Files/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)
    Sri Lanka rebel toll passes 5,000 for this year: official figures AFP - Sun Jul 20, 9:13 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's defence ministry said Sunday it has killed dozens more Tamil Tigers in the latest ground and sea clashes, bringing a tally of reported rebel deaths so far this year to more than 5,000.

  19. File photo shows a US attack aircraft Afghanistan. Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)
    International strikes kill nine Afghan police AFP - Sun Jul 20, 11:02 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) - Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban, authorities said.

  20. Children treated abroad as U.S. doctors push for devices Reuters - Sun Jul 20, 8:19 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    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.

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