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Cruise ship couple overboard: Hunt for missing passengers (+video)

Cruise ship couple overboard: Two passengers on a Carnival cruise ship fell overboard off the coast of Australia. Surveillance camera footage shows a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman going overboard.

6.4 earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea: No tsunami alert issued

Jonathan Winters dies: Ground-breaking improv comic inspired funny men and women

Vanuatu earthquake: Powerful quake rattles Pacific island Vanuatu

Toxic mice air drop: Dead poisoned mice to target Guam tree snakes

Solomons tsunami destroys villages

Solomon Islands hit by five-foot tsunami, leaving six dead (+video)

Pacific earthquake: Small tsunami hits Solomon Islands (+video)

Pacific earthquake hits Solomon Islands: Tsunami warning issued (+video)

UN's focus on Middle East overlooks other urgent global matters

On a Farther Shore

Modern Parenthood Rescue dog: Getting inside a dog's head and his futon fixation

Chapter & Verse 'Cloud Atlas': 6-minute trailer stokes excitement – and book sales (+ video)

Search for missing Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage begins in Honolulu

Apple iTunes store comes to Asia

Opinion Military soft 'coup' in Egypt has precedent

NASA to launch school-bus-sized space telescope to hunt black holes (+video)

Transit of Venus offers rare opportunity to mock astronomers (+video)

Papa New Guinea's parliament under blockade by police

Solar eclipse 2012: All systems go for witnessing rare 'ring of fire' (+video)

"Fraud, waste, corruption:" Congress decries GSA culture

Faith tourist: From Easter at the Vatican to a South Pacific church

Sgt. Robert Bales and multiple tours of duty: How many is too many?

Decoder Wire Was Amelia Earhart a US spy? (+video)

Amelia Earhart: Why is Hillary Clinton backing new search? (+video)