More evacuations were underway in the flood-ravaged Australian state of Queensland on Tuesday as waters continued to rise.

Navy Capt. Owen Honors, who produced profanity- and slur-laden videos while second in command of the USS Enterprise, has been relieved of his command of the ship, a senior defense official told CNN Tuesday.

The governor of Pakistan's Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country's controversial blasphemy law.

As much as you just loooooove to hate on Snooki and The Situation, part of you likes them. Why else would the entries about the reality clan consistently pop up on our daily Top 10 lists -- especially when 95 percent of the comments are negative?

NFL playoff field, draft order set; coaching carousel begins to spin

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BEREA, Ohio (AP)-Browns president Mike Holmgren began looking for Cleveland's next coach just hours after firing Eric Mangini.

Favre had saved a glossy souvenir program of Sunday's season finale between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, a game he didn't play in.

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Both runways at London's Heathrow Airport are open, an airport spokeswoman said Monday, but many people stranded there may not get their Christmas wish of being home for the holidays.

A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves.

After the final buzzer sounded and another win was in the books, Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma found his family in the stands. He hugged his smiling mother, then kissed his happy wife.

On the final day of New Jersey's last bear hunt in 2005, Mark Utter bagged a bruin that required eight hunters to lift into a flat-bottom boat, so it could be pulled out of the woods with an ATV.

Tom Coughlin slammed his oversized chart to the ground, threw off his headset, and surrendered to the same vile rage that was consuming his entire fan base. Millions of men, women and children dressed in their Simms and LT and Eli jerseys were throwing things in their living rooms, cursing an impossibly cruel twist of fate, and screaming at the high-def image of Coughlin while the coach was screaming at the distraught punter before him.

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Chile's president said Wednesday that conditions were "inhumane" at a prison south of Santiago where a fire killed 81 prisoners.

) Michael Vick leads Pro Bowl voting 1½ years after he was released from prison. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/12/08/michael-vick-pro-bowl.ap/index.html#ixzz17d6ICXzC

- Timing is everything, and though the news of the Red Sox signing free-agent left fielder Carl Crawford at the winter meetings didn't break until the deadline-unfriendly time of 11:30 p.m. ET, Boston's acquisition was a perfectly executed preemptive strike aimed at their archrivals.

Authorities were examining the chest protector and awaiting the autopsy results Wednesday of a 16-year-old baseball catcher who collapsed and died last week after being hit in the chest by a pitch during an after-school practice in Paterson, New Jersey, police said.

With his wife and two of his three children sitting a few feet away, Urban Meyer didn't have to look very far to be reminded why he's leaving one of the premier jobs in college football. It's all about family.