AP - A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable even to search dogs.

AFP - President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Sunday, praised the city's resilience and pledged support for rebuilding "until the job is done."

AP - China will inspect airline safety measures nationwide in the wake of a crash that killed 42 people at a small airport in the northeast, the country s civil aviation body said Friday.

AFP - Southampton on Monday fired manager Alan Pardew only 48 hours after the League One side dished out a 4-0 beating to Bristol Rovers.

AP - A man who railed against the Discovery Channel s environmental programming for years burst into the company s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.

AP - Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip set off Paris Hilton s latest legal troubles when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was marijuana stopped the vehicle and police say a bag of cocaine later fell out of the 29-year-old socialite s purse.

AP - Debt-ridden carrier Mexicana and its domestic subsidiaries will begin suspending flights midnight Friday and halt all operations by the next day as it seeks to restructure costs, Mexico s transportation secretary said.

AFP - The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.

AFP - Mexico's blood-soaked drug war intensified in northeastern Tamaulipas state over the weekend, with fresh violence attributed to the Zetas, the drug cartel blamed for slaughtering 72 illegal migrants.

AP - The local headlines blare almost daily with new details about their impending split. Court documents are rife with he said, she said disagreements and details of lavish personal spending. Yet around the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse, the ugly split of Frank and Jamie McCourt barely registers a blip.