LOS ANGELES - A pocket-size drone dubbed the Nano Hummingbird for the way it flaps its tiny robotic wings has been developed for the Pentagon by a Monrovia, Calif., company as a mini-spy plane capable of maneuvering on the battlefield and in urban areas.
BOUND BROOK, New Jersey, Feb 7 - Joyce Kane lives with two women who pay rent, don't smoke and like her cats.
GUELATAO, Mexico - Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated.
MINNEAPOLIS - Jody Buell thought she was falling in love, but she fell for someone who didn't exist.
NEW YORK, Feb 3, 2011 - New York's storied Chelsea Hotel, the classic haunt of artists and hell-raising performers, is for sale and, perhaps, so is its soul.
FLORENCE, Italy, Feb 2, 2011 - Mario slips into his seat in the Florence schoolroom just as the exam begins: five years after arriving in Italy from Honduras he may finally be able to clinch that longed-for permit to stay, thanks to the country's new language tests.
BERLIN, Jan 28 - All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting.
BALTIMORE - Hardy, adaptable and prolific. We should all be so lucky.
LAS VEGAS - Motley Crue singer Vince Neil will serve 15 days in jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to drunken driving, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said.
WASHINGTON - Two days before the space shuttle Challenger made its final flight, Carl McNair spoke to his brother Ron McNair on the telephone. It was mostly small talk: Super Bowl XX being played that day, William "Refrigerator" Perry, the weather.