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Weakened Barry rolls into Louisiana, drenches Gulf Coast

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 07:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that officials had feared could test the levees and pumps that were...

No lights, big city: Power outage KOs Broadway, Times Square

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 07:01 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A power outage crippled the tourist-filled heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on, sending theater-goers spilling into the streets, knocking out Times Square's...

Vatican mystery over missing girl deepens as bones are found

Saturday, 13 July 2019, 20:21 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery. The Vatican said it...

Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation

Saturday, 13 July 2019, 15:05 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents — ranging from scantily...

Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry

Saturday, 13 July 2019, 07:28 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a path ashore and...

Watch: Germany's Merkel sits for anthems after shaking episodes

Thursday, 11 July 2019, 15:13 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the visiting Danish prime minister have sat through their countries' national anthems at a ceremony in Berlin, a day after the latest of three incidents in which...

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