Environment
Latest Stories
20110120-103817-pic-524869966.jpg
The Putnam model at the Villages at Loudoun Valley in Ashburn has an open center-island kitchen, breakfast area and family room at the back of the home. The Putnam has 3,196 square feet and is priced from $509,995.
20110120-103838-pic-18322130.jpg
Richmond American Homes is building 69 single-family homes on quarter-acre homesites at Saint Charles in St. Charles. The homes have 1,992 to 2,736 finished square feet, with base prices from $289,990 to $334,990.
20110120-103838-pic-875451570.jpg
The Alison model at Saint Charles has an optional fireplace. The Alison has 2,168 square feet and is priced from $294,990.
20110119-191422-pic-567858649.jpg
An Airtel billboard in Nairobi, Kenya, reflects the aggressiveness of the communications giant. Millions of mobile-phone subscribers in Africa saw the company icon on their phone screens change from Zain to Airtel last fall. (Associated Press)
20110119-175831-pic-26660506.jpg
Researcher Samuel Belknap III displays the skull of a domesticated dog on Friday at the University of Maine in Orono. Mr. Belknap found a bone fragment of what he says is the oldest-known domesticated dog in North America while examining waste matter recovered from Hinds Cave. (Associated Press)
Haiti Ex-Dictator Ret_Thir.jpg
Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier talks by phone on the balcony of his hotel room in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Epiphany_3439
White birds are released over Ukrainian believers during an Epiphany ceremony to bless the water in Lviv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. Orthodox believers celebrate the holiday of the Epiphany on Jan. 19, and traditionally bathe in holes cut through thick ice on rivers and ponds to cleanse themselves with water deemed holy for the day. (AP Photo/Petro Zadorozhnyy)
earthquake.jpg
People in Jafarabad, 300 kilometers north of Quetta, Pakistan, pray outside their homes as a severe earthquake hits the area on Wednesday morning. The 7.2-magnitude quake shook many parts of the country and caused tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. (Associated Press)
storms_3392
Mark Kelley, who lives on the Coeur d'Alene River near Enaville, Idaho, pauses as he stands next to his vehicle in frigid waist-deep flood water Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, as a towing services uses a winch to pull his 1992 Jeep Cherokee up his driveway. Warm temperatures and steady rain has caused flooding and prompted evacuations in the area. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Shawn Gust)
storms_3388
Cars are left stranded on East Lolo Pass, after heavy weekend rain caused the flooding of the Sandy River and washed out the road, in Zigzag, Ore., Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Torsten Kjellstrand)
storms_3387
Waters of the Sandy River flow down East Lolo Pass in Zigzag, Ore., Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. The rains in Oregon were pushing some rivers and streams over their banks at a time when many waterways were rising because of warming temperatures and melting snow, with some rivers reaching flood stage and more were expected to rise above that level. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Torsten Kjellstrand)
storms_3385
Chloe, the canine pet of Mark Kelley, waits patiently near her home that is surrounded by flood waters of the Coeur d'Alene River near Enaville, Idaho,on Monday, Jan. 17. 2001. Warm temperatures and steady rain have caused flooding and prompted evacuations in the area. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Shawn Gust)
Haiti_Ex-Dictator_Ret_Live.jpg
Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier (center) waves to supporters from a hotel balcony after his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday. Mr. Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year's devastating earthquake. (Associated Press)
brazil_3374
People leave their home at a flooded area after landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
brazil_3371
Rescue workers cover the recovered body of landslide victim Samara Coelho da Silva, 13, in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. Brazil's army on Monday sent 700 soldiers to help throw a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off from food, water or help in recovering bodies since mudslides killed at least 642 people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
APTOPIX Haiti Ex-Dict_Thir.jpg
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier waves to the media at the Toussaint Louverture international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year's devastating earthquake.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Brazil Flood Deaths_Lea.jpg
A man injured during a landslide is carried in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, on Sunday. Survivors carried food, water and blankets to friends and relatives still stranded in remote, stricken villages. (Associated Press)
henri_1064
U.S. Army helicopters providing support for U.S. ground troops fly into a staging area fifty miles northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Helicopter fuel is stored in the large rubber tanks, foreground. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
henri_1061
Freelance woman war correspondent Jurate Kazickas, from New Rochelle, N.Y., comforts a wounded U.S. Marine after he was hit near the South Vietnamese village of Con Thien, July 4, 1967. The Marines were moving into an area near the demilitarized zone to recover Marine bodies when they were hard hit by North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
henri_1054
A woman of the Montagnard tribe cradles a baby as members of the tribe are relocated from Bu Lack village in September 1968. The Montagnards were being transported to a refugee camp. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
