In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing “Too hot! Too hot!” as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

ENDEAVOUR blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit as the mission commander’s wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

A Northern California wildfire was 90% contained today after forcing thousands to evacuate, fire officials said.

Homeowners fought desperate losing battles today against relentless wildfires sweeping across Florida’s Atlantic coast.

A pilot whose engine died looked around for a smooth emergency landing spot and spotted just what he needed – a four-lane highway that wasn’t busy.

A powerful storm has pounded California for a second day, flooding freeways and desert roads, tossing boats ashore and triggering a rockslide that blocked the central coast highway.

Two American soldiers were killed and three others wounded when a bomb exploded next to their convoy north of Baghdad.

THE US military has issued a most-wanted list of 55 former leaders in Saddam Hussein’s regime to be pursued, captured or killed.