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  • America Loses a Treasure: Stanley Kunitz
    The former U.S. poet laureate Stanley Kunitz has died. He was 100. The Pulitzer Prize-winner was known for his expressive verse, social commitment and generosity to young writers. His career spanned three-quarters of a century.
  • Credit-Counseling Firms Lose Tax-Exempt Status
    The Internal Revenue Service is revoking the tax exempt status of some of the largest credit counseling agencies in the country. An IRS investigation disclosed that the firms solicited business from people seriously in debt and that they didn't provide counseling or consumer education, as required.
  • Workers bury another charred corpse. The unidentified man was found floating on the water, trapped in a mangrove swamp on the other side of the lagoon from the fuel pipeline blast.
    Nigeria Buries Dead from Pipeline Explosion
    Nigerians are burying the dead killed in Friday's explosion of an oil pipeline. About 200 people died in the blast. The deadly fireball apparently occurred when people tried to tap the line for fuel.
  • NASA is sweeping the grounds at Kennedy Space Center for road kill, and then using the carcasses as bait to capture vultures. The birds will be released after the shuttle launches. Here, a vulture and an armadillo outside the space center.
    NASA Seeks to Curb Bird Threat to Shuttle
    NASA is hard at work trapping vultures near Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Space agency officials want to keep the four-to-six pound birds away from Saturday's shuttle launch.
  • Wilkes-Barre Avoids Worsened Flooding
    People living near the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., are returning to their homes as river waters recede. But flooding still threatens other communities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other parts of the Northeast.
  • Israel Fires Rockets at Office of Palestinian PM
    Israeli attack helicopters fired rockets at the offices of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh early Sunday, setting the building ablaze. There were no casualities in the attack. In another airstrike, a Palestinian militant was killed. It's the latest violence since an Israeli soldier was captured by Palestinians a week ago.
  • Research Shows Mice May Have Feelings, Too
    Scientists find evidence that mice and humans may share some sophisticated emotional characteristics. It's now thought mice have the ability to be affected by another mouse's pain or suffering.
  • World Cup Fever in Berlin Survives German Loss
    Even though Germany is out of the World Cup, there's still an atmosphere of great excitement ahead of Sunday's championship game in Berlin between Italy and France.
  • Cause or Effect? Pimms Cup is linked to warm-weather activities, from Wimbledon to horse racing.
    Refreshingly Old School: Pimms Cup
    With Wimbledon wrapping up this weekend we take a look at the beverage most associated with the event: the Pimms Cup. Michele speaks with Martin Joyce, director of catering for Wimbledon, about what's in the drink -- and why it pairs so well with watching tennis.
  • Mexicans Hit the Polls to Elect New President
    Mexicans go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president. The vote will determine whether Mexico joins the region's leftward trend, or deepens free-market reforms and its already close alliance with the United States. Polls have shown the race will be close between leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon.
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