AP - Unsettled weather was expected to persist over the Gulf States on Tuesday.

Reuters - In summer, the heat is unbearable. In winter, the torrential rains turn the cramped, leaking tent where Khalid Jamhuri lives with his family into a freezing morass of mud.

AP - Atlantis blasted off Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope on the most delicate and dangerous repair job ever in orbit—a mission so risky that for the first time a second shuttle stands ready to rescue the seven astronauts if something goes wrong.

AP - The National Guard is helping residents in West Virginia's southern coalfields recover from weekend flooding that destroyed at least 300 buildings, knocked out power and caused mudslides that flushed trash, debris and at least one mobile home downstream.

AP - Residents of the Midwest cleared away wreckage Saturday following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people.

AP - When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick.

AP - The leaky canoe is taking on water fast as our two guides fight the river in a driving rain.