Rain Slows Search For Dead In Pakistan Plane Crash (ap)
AP – Emergency teams battled heavy rains and mud Thursday to recover bodies strewn over hills overlooking the Pakistani capital following the country’s worst-ever plane crash. Read more
Us: Drills Sent ‘clear Message’ To Nkorea (ap)
AP – For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets — dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again. Read more
Floods Wash Chemicals Into Northeast China River (ap)
AP – Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China on Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than decade. Read more
New Bid To Erect Columbus Statue In Puerto Rico (ap)
AP – Christopher Columbus is on the move again in the New World, after numerous rejections in a nearly two-decade quest to find him a suitable spot. Read more
Police Capture Drug Lieutenant In Northern Mexico (ap)
AP – A suspected drug cartel lieutenant with a quarter-million-dollar reward on his head was captured in the border state of Chihuahua, where rival gangs are waging a bloody turf war, police said Wednesday. Read more