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Obama, Haitian President Meet, Exchange Pledges
Haitian President Rene Preval visited the White House to thank the U.S. for the hundreds of millions or dollars in aid sent after the massive earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince. U.S. President Barack Obama responded by promising more aid to help rebuild Haiti.

Boy, 7, Saves Family by Calling 911
A 7-year-old boy calmly phoned 911 from a locked bathroom to report that armed robbers were in his house and threatening his parents and his 6-year-old sister.

Jamaican Racing Iditarod Dog Sled Race
Jamaica is a long way from Alaska, but that's the journey that Newton Marshall has made. Marshall, from Jamaica, is competing in the Iditarod.

Pilot Who Landed Plane in Hudson River Retiring
The pilot considered a hero for landing a plane in the Hudson River and saving everyone onboard is retiring.

Massive Pharaoh Head Found
The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced a giant-sized find: a massive red granite rendering of the head of Amenhotep III.

Flooded Town Rises from the Depths
Potosi, a Venezuelan town that was flooded intentionally in 1985 so the resulting reservoir could power a hydroelectric dam and provide electricity to the surrounding countryside, is back on the map, after a drought erased the reservoir.

The 2010 Winter Olympics
Find out more about the Games, in Vancouver, Canada.

DNA Tests Prove King Tut Not Murdered
A new study released by Egypt's top archaeologists (including international celebrity Zahi Hawass of the Supreme Council of Antiquities) confirms that Tutankhamen, the famed "boy king" who ruled young and died young (at age 19), had a club foot and Kohler's disease, a condition that makes it difficult for blood to get to the bones in the foot.

15 Trapped in Tallest Building
The bang that 15 people heard recently trapped them in an elevator 124 floors about the ground floor of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for a full 45 minutes before they were rescued.

Hollywood Sign Neighborhood Saved from Developers
A nature conservation group has put down an option to save the land surrounding the fabled Hollywood sign from being turned into luxury homes.

Massive Quake Flattens Haitian Capital
Find out more about the 7.0-magnitude quake that rocked Port-au-Prince in January 2010.

Dubai Opens World's Tallest Building
It rises 2,717 feet (828 meters) into the sky. It is the new tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, and it now graces the skyline of Dubai.

Pyramids Not Built by Slaves, New Evidence Suggests
From Herodotus to Hollywood – that's the long history of the story of how slaves built the great Pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Yet newly uncovered evidence suggests even more strongly than ever before that the story of slaves' building the Pyramids is indeed a myth.

Boy, 10, Enrolls in College
Of the students attending classes at Pittsburg (Kan.) State University this year, just one is 10 years old. That would be Alex Jaeger, who recently scored a 23 on the ACT college entrance exam and enrolled for a full schedule of classes.

World's Tallest Building Soars into Sky
It rises 2,717 feet (828 meters) into the sky. It is the new tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, and it now graces the skyline of Dubai.

Math, Science Study Gets High-profile Boost
Big Bird, famous CEOs, and the White House are teaming up to launch an initiative to improve American students' knowledge of math and science.

U.K. Unveils Supreme Court
On October 5, the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court began its new term, the U.K. Supreme Court heard its first case.

Obama to Address Schoolchildren
President Obama will deliver a live address to American schoolchildren at noon Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 7. The address will last 15–20 minutes and focus on the importance of staying in school and getting a good education.

Flying Car to Take Bookings
It's a car. It's a plane. It's both. It's the Transition Roadable Aircraft, what is being called the "flying car."

Test to Determine Sports Prowess?
Can $149 determine a child's athletic future? Some parents think so. Atlas Sports Genetics, a company out of Boulder, Colo., is offering a DNA test that could possibly point to a handful of genetic codes in children that could possibly determine how successful children will be in particular sports.

Astronaut's Diary Survives Explosion
Even though none of the astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia survived the explosion on Feb. 1, 2003, several pieces of paper did. Those pieces of paper are pages from the diary of Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, who was aboard Columbia when it disintegrated on re-entry.

Plane Wreckage Found for Adventurer Fossett
Search crews have confirmed finding the wreckage of the plane that millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was last known to have been flying when he disappeared in September 2007.

COOL Food Standards
Labels of food sold in American markets now have to include the country from which the food came. This is called Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL).

'Jet Man' Zooms Across English Channel
In just 13 minutes last week, Yves Rossy flew his way into history, under his own power. The Swiss aviator crossed the 22 miles of the English Channel on Sept. 26 with nothing powering him but his own jet-powered device. He wore a flight suit and helmet, of course, for safety reasons. To steer, he moved his head and back.

U.S. Penny Gets Redesign
For the first time in 50 years, the American one-cent coin will change. Beginning in 2009, the penny will get a makeover, resulting in four different designs for the back of the coin.

The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
The presidential election process has begun, with primaries and caucuses beginning to occur across the United States.

Search Resumes for Adventurer Fossett

The search is back on for Steve Fossett, whose solo flight over western Nevada on Labor Day weekend in 2007 ended with the celebrated adventurer missing and eventually declared dead.

Classrooms Turning on to Clickers
Modern technology is influencing the classrooms of America in exciting new ways. One of those is the use of the clicker.

Resistance Growing to Great Firewall
The Chinese government is running a large censorship program designed to keep knowledge of many things from the rest of the world out of the eyesight and brains of the Chinese people. But many people are speaking out, online and in the real world.

Fish Delivers Letter 15 Years Later
A girl's letter tucked into a red balloon and sent skyward 15 years ago has turned up in the hands of a fisherman, who found it attached to a fish 1500 kilometers away.

NY Requires Calorie Counts for Fast Food
One of the largest cities in the United States, New York, is now requiring its chain restaurants to include calorie counts of foods on menus.

Fortune Cookies Come from Japan?
That's what one researcher says, and she has lots of data to back up her claim.