Isaac, once a Category One hurricane but now just a tropical storm, is expected to be downgraded further to a tropical depression by late Thursday. In the meantime, the storm continues to pack winds of 45 miles per hour and pour down about feet of rain in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. We've gathered a slew of photos and pictures of the devastation throughout New Orleans and Mississippi from Isaac.
Traffic on the Mississippi River halted again Wednesday due to a grounded barge near Greenville, Miss., as the nation's main waterway falls toward a record low level because of the worst U.S. drought in over a half century.
Several passengers who witnessed Tony Scott's tragic jump off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles are shopping around video of the fatal leap. While TMZ has reportedly seen the footage, the Thirty Mile Zone entertainment news outlet opted to steer clear of the potentially controversial video and not purchase the material.
Tony Scott's tragic jump off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles County was reportedly witnessed by a group of passengers on a harbor cruise. According to TMZ, some of those passengers took photos and shot video.
Seventy-six people were rescued on Sunday from a sightseeing vessel that ran aground in Alaska's Glacier Bay and began filling with water, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Tony Scott, the famed Hollywood film director responsible for movies such as "Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop II," among many other blockbusters, jumped to his death on Sunday off a Los Angeles bridge.
Tony Scott, director of hit Hollywood films, such as "Top Gun," "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "Days of Thunder," died after he jumped off a bridge in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, reports said.
Ten Japanese nationalists bring their flags to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands only a few days after 14 Chinese nationalists from Hong Kong do the same.
The move may help to deflate current anger, but there remains plenty for the nationalistic-minded in East Asia to be upset about.
A visit from the South Korean president to some islands in the Sea of Japan has sparked a small flame war in an ongoing territorial dispute. The big fish in the pool, China, is steering clear of this one, despite its entanglement in island disputes with many other countries in the area.
After a faux "exile" campaign to ship Pitbull off to an Alaska Walmart was conceived, the rapper has held up his part of the deal, bringing the promotional campaign to fruition by tweeting photos inside of the Kodiak superstore and around the small town.
The British banking giant announced it was earmarking $700 million for laundering roughly $30 billion in drug and terrorism money around the world.
On Sunday, China appointed 45 lawmakers to the congress in Sansha City, a Chinese prefecture established just last month. China Claims South China Sea Island With Military Garrison: Report
With the support of President Benigno Aquino III, as well as $30 million from the United States, the Filipino military will add more than 40 aircraft -- including attack helicopters -- and other weapons to its arsenal.
Chinese fishermen make neighbors angry again -- this time the Russian coast guard, which hit suspected poachers
Chinese navy ships were able to free a stranded vessel in disputed waters near the Philippines Sunday, avoiding a potential standoff between the two countries, which have both made conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea.
How do we make sense of reports coming from Russia that it intends to send a large fleet of ships on maneuvers off Syria?
The disgraced captain whose luxury-liner shipwreck killed 32 passengers in January is a free man again, and he's not going down without a fight.
The United States Coast Guard has suspended a search for missing millionaire, Guma Aguiar, after his boat mysteriously washed ashore in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday without anyone inside.
At least three people died and several were reported missing when a major fire sabotaged a seven-story government building in Mumbai Thursday.
A California man was rescued by authorities after his 50-foot-boat was hit by a whale as he sailed about 40 miles from the western coast of Mexico.
Not every Haitian immigrant to the United States completes the dangerous journey to get there, but those who do can have a surprising effect on the quality of life upon the island of their birth.