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The company disclosed Tuesday that it lost about $304 million in the third quarter after purchasing homes at higher prices than it now expects to sell them at.

For first time homebuyers it was one of the hardest years ever to afford a house. But homeowners saw tremendous gains in housing wealth.

A towering slab of rock broke from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall in a Brazilian lake Saturday. Dozens were injured.

In talking about Thursday's alleged terror plot in Britain, President Bush used the term "Islamic fascism." Last October, the president referred to "Islamofascism." Madeleine reports on what the term means -- and whether it applies to Islamic terrorism.

Table-saw accidents send more than 60,000 people to seek medical treatment every year, according to federal estimates. In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, SawStop inventor Steven Gass visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission near Washington recently.

The California Air Resources Board announces its plan to reduce air pollution at the state's ports. Nationwide, ports account for a large and growing proportion of a dangerous kind of air pollution: soot from diesel engines. California is leading the way in trying to reduce the problem.

French police have banned gatherings and increased security in Paris this weekend to prevent further violence. NPR's Adam Davidson discusses the impact of increased police presence on some of the communities most affected by the riots of the past two weeks.

Airline officials in Greece say they've recovered the flight data recorders from the Cypriot jetliner that crashed Sunday. Penny Gourntis of the Athens News Agency talks about the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

All across the Gulf Coast, people are complaining about the Red Cross. They cite long lines at relief centers, unanswered emergency phone lines and little or late help for victims. The Red Cross acknowledges problems, but says it is doing its best in the face of the nation's biggest disaster response ever.

Some doctors have hoped that heroin addicts could break the habit more easily if they were given a drug-blocking agent while under general anesthesia for about six hours. But a new study suggests this approach is more dangerous than other drug replacement therapies.