AP - A bird's nest nestled in the tall grasses of a wetland symbolizes the end of a 20-year struggle to clean up a site contaminated by radioactive material from a former Cold War-era uranium processing plant.
AP - He's known across Spain for giving out loads of cash and having a sidekick who travels by broom. And soon he hopes to rack up another claim to fame: becoming a space tourist.
AFP - Russia warned it would take measures against Belarus unless it dropped a new transit tax on Russian oil, after Minsk went on the offensive in the escalating energy dispute with a judicial move to enforce the duty.
AP - Mudslides and flash floods triggered by torrential downpours killed at least 27 people and drove thousands from their homes during the past five days in southeastern Brazil, officials said Friday.
AP - It was a rough day to be a moose. Several were stalked by helicopter, captured with a net, blindfolded and then airlifted to trailers for a six-hour drive. The moose woke up in Utah on Friday but were going to sleep in Colorado.
AP - Once down to about 15, the world's only naturally migrating flock of whooping cranes has continued its comeback, now numbering a record 237 birds in wintering grounds along Texas' Gulf Coast.
