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Fourth typhoon in month hits Philippines

The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.

China says U.S. ship violated international law

A U.S. surveillance ship violated Chinese and international laws during patrols more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the Chinese coast over the weekend, China's state-run media reported Tuesday.

Pentagon says Chinese vessels harassed U.S. ship

The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship Sunday in the South China Sea in the latest of several instances of "increasingly aggressive conduct" in the past week.

Reports: China sending ships to fight pirates in Africa

China plans to send a fleet of ships to help patrol the pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa, Chinese media reported Thursday.

Fleet survive pirate threat, arrive in India

Volvo Ocean Race favorite Ericsson 4 has arrived in Cochin, India to win the second leg of the round-the-world race.

Round the world racers to go on pirate alert

Eight yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Race round-the-world event will be kept closely briefed on piracy threats and monitored by warships as they approach the troubled waters of the Arabian Sea.

The world's scariest runways

It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.

Hong Kong braces for Tropical Storm Nuri

Hong Kong was bracing Friday for what could be a direct hit from Tropical Storm Nuri.

Hong Kong: City overview

Pulsating with neon, powered by commerce and dripping with cash, Hong Kong's crowded streets form a frenetic, freewheeling gateway to Asia, improbably perched on a barren rock by the shores of the typhoon-plagued South China Sea. While once a golden land of opportunity for anyone able to ink their name at the foot of a contract and willing to work without sleep from dawn until a dusk several years later, times are changing fast for the former British colony. The return of sovereignty to Beijing in 1997 has cast a pall of political uncertainty over Hong Kong's six million people, while China's economic rise and the galloping spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome have added to their woes. At times the dripping heat of summer, the semi-permanent shroud of pollution drifting in from mainland Chinese factories and the pitch dark shadows cast by a concrete jungle of tower blocks can prove unbearable. But from the Blade Runner world of Mong Kok -- where Triad gangsters still hold sway -- to the Zen Buddhis

CNNMoney: The high life: Vacationing in a tree house

People always talk about returning to their roots, but some take that to the extreme, emulating their simian ancestors by living, however temporarily, in the trees.

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