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North Hempstead adds new areas on Port Washington peninsula to must-leave zones

The Great Neck peninsula is ready for Irene, a park commissioner said in its sealed marina

For the first time, North Shore L.I. residents must leave their homes

GOP candidates continue to push, campaign.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces killed eight people across Syria overnight, activists said Friday, in a renewed campaign to crush protesters cheered by the downfall of Moammar Gadfafi in Libya.

ater that year, Israeli warplane bombed the site in the Syrian desert.

NASA's space shuttles may be stationary but they continue to race ahead with research and development as they prepare to fly a laser communications system in an aim to test high definition television from Mars.

After Zachery Tims' death, nearly 5,000 people packed the First Baptist Church of Orlando to say their good-byes to the church leader.

Northwestern scientists identify faulty cellular mechanism responsible for the progressive muscle paralysis of ALS

Here is a brief rundown of important events around the world Monday morning, August 22, 2011.

The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the Arab revolutions and demonstrate once again that these entrenched autocratic governments are not invincible.

Israel and the Hamas Islamist group which controls the Gaza Strip have agreed to a ceasefire after five days of cross-border violence, officials said Monday.

Egypt and Israel tried Sunday to defuse a diplomatic crisis over the killing of five Egyptian security personnel during an Israeli operation against cross-border raiders, as crowds of Egyptians protested angrily at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.

As for the threat of a military action ... any action against Syria will have greater consequences (on those who carry it out), greater than they can tolerate, the President said.

President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough summer battling the economy and Republicans in Congress, has picked a summer reading list that is long on fiction.

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu responded swiftly to the killing of eight citizens, including that of 22-year-old Staff Sergeant Moshe Naftali, in a series of coordinated attacks on Israeli vehicles in southern resort city of Eilat.

Economist Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini, the NYU professor who 4 years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, said U.S./Europe policy makers must invest in a new, smarter social safety net to restore a balance between the free market and public goods. If it doesn’t occur, a systemic flaw will, at minimum, continue to hinder economic recovery.

Almost half of the workers in Verizon's wireline business went on strike on August 7 after talks for a new labor pact failed when their contract expired.

Egypt has said it is withdrawing its envoy to Israel, holding Tel Aviv responsible for the deaths of five Egyptian border troops on Thursday. The latest development marks the lowest ebb in the relations between the two countries that had maintained cold peace over the last several decades.

According to reports, five Egyptians were killed in the fire-fight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants. The event occurred Thursday, near the southern Israel city of Eilat.

Israeli aircraft struck Hamas outposts in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets into southern Israel Friday as violence escalated following deadly gun attacks along Israel's porous border with Egypt.