UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
An original Apple computer, Known as the Apple 1, from 1976 has sold at auction for nearly $388,000.
A Chinese scientist accused of stealing a research drug from a Wisconsin medical school and planning to pass it off as his own pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge of illegally accessing a computer.
The US Federal Aviation Administration announced it would increase the required flying hours for co-pilots significantly, four days after the deadly crash.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first public appearance in court Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to 30 charges for his alleged role in the tragedy that killed three and hurt over 200 others in April.
China and US kicked off the fifth round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington.
Sino-US talks 'help build trust'
Comment:Dialogue and interaction
The fifth round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) started in Washington on Wednesday, with the two sides expected to hold a series of talks on a wide range of political, security, economic and financial issues.
Latin America and some parts of Africa are most exposed to China's shifts to a slower but more sustainable model of consumption-led growth.
The snow-covered Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of steam into the air in Puebla July 9, 2013.
"Kilikis", wearing outsized masks and playfully hitting bystanders with sponges on sticks, parade daily through the city accompanied by brass bands during the nine-day-long festival made popular by US writer Ernest Hemingway.
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due in court on Wednesday to face charges in the worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since September 11, 2001.
The pilots aboard the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco relied on automatic equipment - an auto-throttle system - to maintain airspeed and did not realize the plane was flying too slowly until it was just 200 feet (60 meters) above the ground.
Brazil said Tuesday it had no intention to grant political asylum to US whistleblower Edward Snowden who disclosed a vast program of US world electronic surveillance.
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