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.
NASA's latest Earth-observation satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), roared into space on Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the US space agency announced.
US Vice-President Joe Biden, speaking hours after a fatal shooting at a courthouse in his home state of Delaware, said on Monday there was an unprecedented sense of urgency among police and officials to enact gun control laws.
Three people including the gunman were killed in a shooting at a Delaware county courthouse on Monday morning, local police said.
Mumford & Sons wrapped up a completely unpredictable Grammy Awards with perhaps the most surprising win of the night, taking home album of the year for "Babel."
A reveller of the Salgueiro samba school participates on the first night of the annual carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, February 10, 2013.
A snowman is seen in Central Park in New York, February 9, 2013.
Two-year-old Azlo, a Dogue de Bordeux, waits in the lobby for his room to be ready at the Hotel Pennsylvania in advance of the Westminster Dog Show in New York, February 10, 2013.
For the first time, NASA's rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment.
US President Barack Obama will describe his plan for spurring the economy in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Boeing Co completed what it called an uneventful flight on Saturday of a test 787 Dreamliner, its first since the airplanes were grounded more than three weeks ago.
A record-breaking blizzard hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses.
A 7.0-magnitude quake jolted Colombia at 10:16 p.m. Saturday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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