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In the deep waters off Cuba's north coast, a Chinese-built oil rig is due to begin drilling this fall in an area geologists believe may have huge beds of undersea crude.A significant find could transform Cuba's economy and possibly alter relations with the United States, but it may also present new

Relief workers in Alabama have been working around the clock to tend to victims of last week's tornadoes.

Scientists have long predicted that — eventually — temperatures and altered rainfall caused by global climate change will take a toll on four of the most important crops in the world: rice, wheat soy and corn.Now, as world grain prices hover near record highs, a new study finds that the effects

Two days before hundreds of deadly tornadoes swept through the South on April 27 and 28, meteorologists were telling people in that part of the country to get ready for powerful twisters.But those same meteorologists have no idea whether there will be a similar outbreak of tornadoes next week or nex

The sheer magnitude of the destruction in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is difficult to comprehend until you are here and can see street after street reduced to rubble — homes, stores, warehouses, parks. President Obama acknowledged the scope as he toured some of the areas hardest hit by this week's storm."

In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a bell rang 25 times Tuesday morning, marking each year that has passed since the world's worst nuclear disaster.

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 25 years ago not only changed the lives of people in Ukraine, it put a radioactive stain on the continent.