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In rare night landing, space shuttle back on Earth (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:18 PM PST

Space shuttle Endeavour returns to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts closed out the last major construction mission at the International Space Station with a smooth landing in darkness that struck many as bittersweet.

Authorities charge 2 men in Texas church fire (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:39 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Smith County Sheriff Department, Jason Robert Bourque, 19, of Lindale, Texas is shown. Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were arrested in a series of east Texas church fires that authorities believe were intentionally set. (AP Photo/Smith County Sheriff Department)AP - Two men who once attended church together were charged Sunday with intentionally burning down a church in east Texas and are suspected in a string of similar blazes, authorities said.

Train kills 3 teen girls crossing Florida bridge (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST

A police officer inspects the tracks on the bridge where three teenagers were walking when hit and killed by a train in Melbourne, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)AP - After goofing around downtown, four teenagers marched past a "no trespassing" sign and braved a railroad trestle that spans 200 feet over a creek. As they joked around and took pictures at the bridge's halfway point, an oncoming train barreled down the tracks, its whistle howling alarm.

World's refugee orphans seeking homes in the US (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:11 PM PST

Sudanese war refugee Madhel Majok, 17, left, currently a high school student in Holliston, Mass., chats with friend Liberian war refugee Zakpa Wright at the foster home where Majok lives in Holliston, Mass., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. As a 9-year-old orphan, Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that claimed his parents, then fled to neighboring Kenya where he survived vigilante shellings on his crowded refugee camp. In Kenya Majok remained in limbo for eight years while waiting for any country to grant him refuge. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Hiding from merciless militiamen and trekking through unforgiving mountainous terrain, Madhel Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that killed his parents. The 9-year-old orphan fled to neighboring Kenya, where he then survived vigilante shellings on his crowded refugee camp.

Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2004 file photo, an oceanfront home damaged by Hurricane Charley is seen in Oak Island, N.C. Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger, but fewer, hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis, File)AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.

Ca. fire from derailed train out, evacuations over (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 09:34 PM PST

AP - Firefighters late Sunday put out a stubborn fire sparked by a freight train derailment in central California, allowing residents evacuated because of a toxic cloud to return home, officials said.

Researchers: Most `test tube' kids are healthy (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:47 PM PST

AP - More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditional way.
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