Scientists declare 'Boaty McBoatface' contest a success
LONDON - There's no sinking feeling for the scientists who inadvertently gave the world Boaty McBoatface. In fact, they're buoyant.
LONDON - There's no sinking feeling for the scientists who inadvertently gave the world Boaty McBoatface. In fact, they're buoyant.
NEW YORK - Two workers have been rescued from a scaffold that dangled about 17 stories above street level in New York City.
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta - Charred bicycles lean on a fence in front of incinerated townhomes. Just across the street, a school and playground are untouched.
JERUSALEM - A leader of the international boycott movement against Israel on Tuesday accused Israeli authorities of imposing a travel ban on him as retribution for his political activities.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A Kansas man who spent 15 years in prison for a rape and murder that his brother later confessed to committing is suing law enforcement officers for fabricating evidence that led to his conviction.
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers posted the most open jobs in eight months in March, but total hiring slowed, providing a mixed picture of the labor market.
LONDON - A British think tank says a decision by U.K. voters to leave the European Union would deliver a significant shock to the economy - with the pound dropping by as much as 20 percent in the immediate aftermath of the June 23 referendum.
BEIRUT - Syrian state media says the Central Bank has ordered money changers to exchange currency at 620 Syrian pounds to the dollar, an unprecedented rate that reflects its eroding value.
SAN BERNARDINO, California - A California college will award a posthumous degree to one of its students who died in the San Bernardino terror attack.
BALTIMORE - The Archdiocese of Baltimore has posted a list of 71 priests and religious brothers accused of sexual abuse.
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts - Politely holding a door open for a police officer has landed a Massachusetts man in jail.
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia - People will soon be able to go online and get a virtual tour of a Virginia river system that Capt. John Smith explored in the 1600s.
RIO DE JANEIRO - The rollercoaster ride that is the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff took another hairpin turn after the acting speaker of the lower chamber of Congress reversed his own decision from just hours earlier that would have plunged the process into uncertainty.
LONDON - The U.S. says world powers working to promote a resolution to Syria's civil war will resume talks next week in Vienna.
Long-term care grew more expensive again this year, with the cost of the priciest option, a private nursing home room, edging closer to $100,000 annually, according to a survey from Genworth Financial.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri - The Latest on the fatal shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):
MONTREAL - The World Anti-Doping Agency will immediately begin an investigation into newly revealed details about Russian doping at the Sochi Olympics.
NEW YORK - When Megyn Kelly sits down with Donald Trump for her prime-time special on the Fox broadcasting network, the Fox News Channel host hopes to call a truce to the war waged by the presumptive Republican nominee since he began slamming her after last August's Republican debate, where he was galled by her tough questioning as one of its moderators.
CHICAGO - Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds says he wants to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal charges of failing to file a tax return.
WASHINGTON - A day after Stephen Strasburg deflected questions about a new contract, the Washington Nationals announced that they had, indeed, agreed to a seven-year extension with the right-hander.
CONWAY, Arkansas - An Arkansas teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he robbed and killed the couple who raised him as their grandson, sidestepping a possible life term in prison.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - An Afghan official says eight people have been killed and another 18 wounded when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in a remote district near the border with Pakistan.
TOANO, Virginia - Losses worsened at Lumber Liquidators during the first three months of its fiscal year and sales declined for a fifth straight quarter as the flooring company spent heavily to put behind it damaging reports of potentially dangerous and illegal products from China.
LONDON - British police have apologized for having a mock suicide bomber shout the phrase "Allahu Akbar" before setting off an explosion during a terror response exercise.
LOS ANGELES - At first glance, it has all the trappings of San Diego Comic-Con.
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