N.Korea to release S.Korean fishing boat

North Korea said Monday it would release a South Korean fishing boat that it seized last month, in an apparently conciliatory gesture after months of high tensions.

Fish-camp raid etched in state history

Forty years ago, the bank of the Puyallup River was the scene of a violent struggle by Indian people encamped to defend their treaty fishing rights against hundreds of law-enforcement officers, many of them armed.

Turkish history to sink to oblivion

HASANKEYF - In Turkey's Kurdish heartland in the southeast of the country, locals of a small town face a bleak future.

Bound by oil: Gulf Coast residents seek lessons from Exxon Valdez

Eyes closed as ice-cold water laps at the shore, one woman is transported to her bayou porch. Staring out at an enormous iceberg, some laugh, convinced it could pass for a Mardi Gras float. Inside a visitor's center, they see a decades-old photograph of an oil-slicked bird and agree: It looks just like the ones back home.

Bond Lemmings Headed For The Cliff

For 28 years it's been hard to lose money in bonds but that's about to change.