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Clean-air rules for parks may be eased

** FILE ** The view from Clingman's Dome on the Tennessee, North Carolina line, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seen here in an undated file photo. The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to set new rules by early 2005 aimed at cutting air pollution in national parks and wilderness areas, in a court settlement with an environmental group Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/File)

The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan. Fri, 16 May 2008 03:22:21 GMT

China races to bury quake dead

Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Fri, 16 May 2008 05:43:21 GMT

Calif. court rejects gay marriage ban

The California Supreme Court has overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. Thu, 15 May 2008 20:18:04 GMT

Squeezed shoppers downsizing

The milk display in the dairy department at a Kroger store shows the company's new 3/4 gallon milk container, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, in Cincinnati. Kroger is marketing the 3/4 gallon size in response to reports that consumers are buying smaller sizes of food so they don't have to put out as much money at one time.

Shoppers have been lugging ever-larger products to their ever-bigger cars for years. Now, more of them are feeling so pinched by the economy that they are buying a little at a time. Thu, 15 May 2008 23:36:50 GMT

Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting

Palestinians burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration marking Israel's 60th anniversary, which Palestinians call the "nakba," or catastrophe, the word they use to describe Israel's establishment which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons Thursday � an annual ritual made darker this year by crippling divisions. Thu, 15 May 2008 17:48:49 GMT