After lashing South Florida with heavy rain and strong wind Sunday, tropical storm Isaac is now heading northwestward into the Gulf of Mexico, posing a threat to the U.S. offshore oil production.
Even as U.S. reels under the spell of Tropical Storm Isaac that lashed Florida Sunday, two other natural disasters seem to have struck southeastern California and the Pacific Ocean Sunday and this time it is an earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude and 7.4 magnitude, respectively.
Police officers in Essex have warned residents a lion could be on the loose in the area, located on the eastern coast of the U.K. All lions in local zoos have been accounted for, but it is believed there is a circus traveling in the vicinity. The Essex Lion Twitter account already has more than 1,800 followers.
A grizzly bear attacked and killed a hiker in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve on Friday, according to the National Park Service. It is the first known such instance in the park's history, although the situation is reminiscent of Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man" documentary.
With casualties of the earthshaking explosion at Venezuela's largest oil refinery rising to 39 dead and more than 80 injured on Saturday, President Hugo Chavez has called for an investigation to determine the cause of the firestorm at the Amuay plant in Falcon state in the northwest of the country.
Neil Armstrong, who died Saturday, was one of the great American heroes of the 20th century. There was much more to him than the Apollo 11 mission, though, like having his hair stolen and that he described himself as a "nerdy engineer."
Both Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed sorrow at the news that Neil Armstrong, an American hero, died Saturday. Armstrong had previously criticized Obama for canceling scheduled explorations into space.
Kimberly Riggs, a mother of two in Batavia, Ohio, died after her 15-year-old daughter accidentally struck her twice with a car.
When news of Armstrong's death broke, Twitter erupted in a sea of memorial tweets, as the phrases "RIP Neil Armstrong," "Apollo 11" and "First Man" immediately began trending on the social media site. NBC News, which first broke the story, also became a trending topic.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, started his career in aeronautics in the Navy and flew jets during the 1950s.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has passed away at 82, according to reports.
Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to be upgraded to a hurricane before it hits the Florida Keys and Tampa regions. The Weather Channel reported that the storm is expected to reach Florida Sunday afternoon and Tampa later in the week.
The Huffington Post has accused the New York Times of publishing a controversial picture of a victim of the Empire State Building shooting.
Flocks of missing birds have British homing-pigeon owners concerned. In a mysterious area that's already been dubbed the Bermuda Triangle of birds, people in the U.K. are worried because their racing pigeons appear to have vanished into thin air.
A shooting that occurred near the Empire State Building on Friday happened during the height of New York City's tourism season, but officials aren't sure what effect, if any, the incident will have on tourism, an industry that brought in more than $34 billion in direct spending last year.
A baffling disease known as Nodding Disease is seemingly transforming otherwise healthy children into zombies who like to start fires, Dead Central reported. As of now the Nodding Disease and fires are specifically concentrated to children in Pader, Uganda.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a news conference Friday following a deadly shooting at the Empire State Building that left several people dead, including the gunman. The shooter, who had lost his job, returned to his former employer and shot a manager at close range.
Archeologists believe that King Richard III may be buried under a parking lot, MSNBC reported.
Two people, including the gunman, were killed, and as many as eight others were wounded in a shooting outside the Empire State Building, at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, on Friday morning, according to the New York Times.
The alleged shooter who left 12 people dead and 58 injured in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., James Holmes, withdrew from a doctoral program just over a month before his supposed rampage. Holmes dropped out of a neuroscience program after he failed an oral exam and made unspecified threats.
Many of the Mayan people slowly died off because of changed environmental conditions. Their own deforestation was a big factor. Should we worry about their calendar?
A 19-year-old Masters College student died after a sand pit caved in on him Oxnard Beach, Calif.
A new video with footage of what some viewers are calling Bigfoot has surfaced online and has inspired researchers to head into an Ohio forest to see if there’s more evidence.
About 3 million bees were seized from the home of a Queens man who had been a beekeeper in his native China and found the insects were getting out of control.
Rodney King was under the influence of cocaine, PCP, marijuana and alcohol when he died, TMZ reported, citing a death report that was released Thursday. After his untimely death King's family automatically blamed his family, but the autopsy frees her of all allegations.
Dog shaming, is the latest craze to hit the Internet in which canines are forced to confess their sins while looking guilty.
The grandmother of British Olympic gymnast Sam Oldham is in a battle with a bookmaker who refused to pay out on her £5 bet that her grandson would win a medal at the 2012 London Games.
A rare white buffalo calf believed to be skinned and mutilated by its Texas owner actually died from an infection.
A Twisted Root Burger cashier gave a one cent "Best Butt" discount to a female customer and slashed another penny off the $14.02 bill for being the "Best Looking" customer of the Texas chain restaurant.
A Delaware daycare center that allegedly ran a "toddler fight club" has had its license suspended after its employees were accused of forcing children to attack each other.
