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A tragic tale gets a somewhat happy ending

A 980-foot tunnel found by Mexican troops beneath the United States border is likely to have been used to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S., officials said Friday.

The Cabo Pulmo National Park in Mexico's Gulf of California imposed a ban on fishing and other extractive activities 15 years ago, and since then, the total mass of its residents has increased five times the amount, a new study revealed.

Orion spaceship is being prepared for a new round of tests at a Lockheed Martin facility near Denver

The Perseid meteor shower will be available on a live video/audio feed from NASA, which has a camera mounted at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. If you want more excellent sky views, check out the Web sites below.

"Just Like a Woman," a movie starring Sienna Miller, is the first in Oscar-nominated director Rachid Bouchareb's planned trilogy about the changing relationship between Americans and the Arab world.

All you ever need to know about the Perseids Meteor Shower is right here.

The victim was bitten in Mexico but died in Louisiana.

The CDC reported Friday the first person in the U.S. died from a vampire bat bite last year, prompting attention to the possibility of vampire bats' expansion into the country.

August's Perseid meteor shower has historically been providing the best opportunity for enthusiasts to catch meteor shows, but this year the Internet will let casual observers enjoy the show live online.

Toronto-based Primero Mining Corp., a precious metals producer, said Friday it expects its common shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday under the symbol "PPP."

Housing bonds that are backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae will all be adjusted.

Handing out flyers at the corner of 47th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City's Diamond District, Mariabi Peenya is having trouble finding passersby eager to sell their gold jewelry for cash.

A Mexican teenager is the first officially known person to die from vampire bat bite and infection with human rabies. The 19-year-old victim was a migrant farm worker from Michoacan, who got bitten on the heel by a vampire bat in July.

Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) still faces tough challenges with tight public spending and fears of a new economic downturn, analysts warned, after the giant Silicon Valley company ended a year's worth of disappointing sales forecasts.

Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers gave Wall Street a set of quarterly results investors could cheer about for the first time in over a year.

Three grandsons of a congressman from California who were abducted in 2007 have been returned to the United States from Mexico, where they were living with his son's ex-wife, authorities said on Thursday.

The leader of the Hand with Eyes gang has been apprehended by Mexican police in the capital.

In the municipal market, the downgrade will likely affect credits directly supported by federal aid and credits that rely on federal support streams for part of total revenues.

Cisco CEO John Chambers gets credit for the networking company's stock jump

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