Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said Wednesday.

Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S. Gulf coast, including Louisana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc three years ago.

A key civil nuclear agreement between Russia and the U.S. looks likely to be shelved until next year at the earliest amid mounting tensions over the fate of Georgia’s breakaway republics.

The storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm after moving over Haiti but forecasters expect it to regain strength and move into the Gulf of Mexico in a few days.

The U.S. Marine commandant said Wednesday that his forces in Iraq’s once-volatile western Anbar Province can be reduced, as the military moves to hand over control of the region to the Iraqis next week.

The U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn’t see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they’re ready to begin basic training

A wildfire tore through the Lees’ Boise subdivision Monday night, fueled by sagebrush and winds that gusted as high as 50 mph

New federal law requires safeguards for records of customers, employees

At the trial of a woman accused of killing her baby, a boy testified Tuesday that he saw another boy carry the baby into a kitchen, heard the microwave start and then saw the baby burned in the oven.

The hacker made more than 400 calls to the Middle East and Asia on a FEMA voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Maryland, two weekends ago

Harvard University is reviewing its campus police department amid concerns officers have unfairly stopped black people because of their race.

“This is not surprising but it is alarming,” said Deborah Williams, a former Interior Department special assistant for Alaska. “This was a relatively cool summer, and to have ice decrease to the second lowest minimum on record demonstrates that global warming’s ongoing impact is profound.”

Mayor Don Plusquellic has proposed leasing the city-owned sewage system to a private contractor for up to $200 million and using the money to finance college scholarships for Akron’s public high school graduates.

The Federal Aviation Administration expects to have some figures today on exactly how many flights were affected by a major communications breakdown yesterday.

Six mausoleums for the unclaimed dead of Hurricane Katrina stand on what was vacant land just five weeks ago, as New Orleans - in what could be a testament to its determination - scrambles to complete a memorial by Friday’s third anniversary of the storm.

Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in this small southern Mississippi town

This one-horse town is looking like becoming a no-horse town

Having nibbled the leaves off 75 million acres of hardwood forest in the Northeast since 1970, European gypsy moths are munching their way across U.S. forests while the even more destructive Asian gypsy moth has been detected in western states

“Most indications are that Gustav will be an extremely dangerous hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean Sea in a few days,” the National Hurricane Center said.

The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported

Because of a rise in yield, opium production this year will fall only 6 percent compared with last year’s record haul and the Taliban stand to again earn tens of millions of dollars from the drug trade.

Police on Monday said 10 homes had been destroyed in the blaze, but revised those figures Tuesday to nine homes destroyed and 10 homes damaged

Two of the bombs went off in Diyala province, which has been the site of much of the recent violence and a stronghold of Sunni insurgents.

It’s the public’s turn to comment on proposed federal rules that would allow coal mines to continue using conveyer belt tunnels for ventilation.

The decision comes amid allegations that large numbers of civilians have been killed in raids and airstrikes by foreign forces in recent weeks

But anti-poverty experts say the slight improvement should be short-lived as wages drop, the job market weakens and household expenses rise

A spokesman for the U.S. embassy says the American navy will deliver food aid to a Georgian port city where Russian forces have set up checkpoints on the outskirts.

Rice is on her seventh trip to the region since talks were relaunched

Two sisters who endured a harrowing ordeal in the Republic of Georgia were greeted with balloons and cheers at New Jersey’s main airport.

A court clerk created a “wanted” poster, and Bonapfel’s staff posted a “raccoon crossing” sign on the judge’s door