LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rescuers and investigators were working amid the smoldering wreckage of a private jet and the hangar it hit after landing at a Southern California airport, but they did not expect to find any survivors from the flight from Idaho with an unknown number aboard, officials said. “This was an unsurvivable crash,” […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Temporary transformers have been installed to allow electric trains to operate from New Haven, Conn., to New York City on the sixth straight day of commuter rail delays. Still, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy says Metro- North Railroad commuters can expect a “very reduced schedule” today compared with a normal peak period. […]

WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has put his Massachusetts home on the market, further fueling speculation about his political future. An open house was held Sunday at the 3,020-squarefoot, four-bedroom Colonial in Wrentham. The asking price is $559,900. Brown and his wife, television reporter Gail Huff, raised two daughters in […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombs struck mainly in Shiite neighborhoods of Bagdad today, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens more, officials said, the latest in relentless violence roiling Iraq in recent months. The country’s Interior Ministry blamed al-Qaidalinked insurgents, saying they are exploiting the political infighting and security shortcomings to […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish flat-pack furniture giant IKEA will start selling residential solar panels at its stores in Britain, the first step in its plan to bring renewable energy to the mainstream market worldwide. The company will start selling solar panels made by China’s Hanergy in its store in Southampton today and in the rest […]

LONDON (AP) — A British tour boat company has suspended its boat trips on the River Thames after a dangerous fire onboard one of its vessels forced the rescue of some 30 people. London Duck Boat Tour said today its river operations will be halted until the cause of the fire has been established. It […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall that killed at least 67, the head of the Kenyan Red Cross said today. The Red Cross’ report of 39 missing people conflicts with the government’s contention that […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s investigative agency says Greenpeace activists posed a “real threat” to the security of personnel on an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic. The Investigative Committee’s statement today is further indication that Russia is determined to prosecute the environmental activists for the Sept. 18 protest at the oil platform. All 30 people […]