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Sierra Club challenges Md. natural gas terminal

The Sierra Club said Thursday it will try to block an energy company's plan to export liquefied natural gas to find new markets for the drilling boom that has flooded the Mid-Atlantic with natural gas. »

The nation's weather

Wet weather continues for the East as a low pressure system crawls up the Eastern Seaboard from the South on Sunday, pulling moisture onshore from the Atlantic. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure that has moved into eastern Canada will continue pushing... »

Virgin: 4 injured in Gatwick emergency landing

Virgin Atlantic says four people suffered minor injuries after a plane bound from Britain to Florida made an emergency landing at London's Gatwick Airport. »

Virgin Atlantic says 4 minor i...

Virgin Atlantic says 4 minor injuries after plane makes emergency landing at London Gatwick. »

Virgin's Branson: I will challenge BA-BMI takeover

Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson says he will challenge a European regulator's decision to approve the takeover of airline BMI by the owner of British Airways and Iberia. »

Prayers and silence mark Titanic centenary

Cruise ship passengers and crew said prayers Sunday at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years ago with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, while the city that built the vessel looked back with a mixture of sorrow and pride. »

Officials: Human remains at Titanic shipwreck site

Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday. »

Events around the world mark Titanic centenary

From a Belfast cathedral to a ship in the cold North Atlantic, thousands were gathering Saturday to remember the Titanic, 100 years after the sinking of the luxury liner. »

Ships on opposites sides of ocean on Titanic trips

Two cruise ships on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean have embarked on journeys to visit the spot where the Titanic sank. »

Copper falls again as economic hopes dim, gold up

Copper prices are ending lower again as more signs of trouble in Europe's debt crisis sent stock markets plunging on both sides of the Atlantic. »

Airline employee resigns after celeb tip-off claim

A Virgin Atlantic employee has resigned following newspaper allegations that she fed information about the company's celebrity clientele to a paparazzi agency, the airline said Friday. »

Argentina still wants Falklands 30 years after war

President Cristina Fernandez's campaign to force Britain to hand over the Falkland Islands may have reached its high point with Monday's 30th anniversary of Argentina's failed occupation of the remote South Atlantic archipelago. »

Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface. »

Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

The huge engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have been in the Atlantic for more than four decades. »

Charges filed against Chevron execs in Brazil

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 17 Chevron and Transocean company executives on Wednesday for an oil leak in the Atlantic, a move deemed outrageous by those targeted but applauded by environmentalists. »

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