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Airline pilots will be allowed to fly until they turn 65 instead of the current mandatory retirement age of 60 under a proposal to be announced Tuesday by Federal Aviation Administrator Marion Blakey.

An explosion leveled a gas station near a ski resort Tuesday morning in West Virginia, killing at least four people and seriously injuring at least nine others, authorities said.

"I didn't do it," I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, bluntly told a White House lawyer, when he testified Tuesday, amid the furor over the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity.

The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down and is likely to be only marginally restored, NASA said Monday, a collapse one astronomer called "a great loss."

Hamas and Fatah militants ceased fire in Gaza Tuesday as a truce took effect across the volatile territory and brought hopes for an end to the fighting that has left 36 people dead in five days.

A dead soldier's family can have his sperm impregnated into the body of a woman he never met, an Israeli court ruled in a precedent-setting decision.The soldier, Keivan Cohen, 20, was single and left no will. But at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since.

There is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming" the Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday

A woman was convicted Monday of murdering her Marine husband with arsenic so she could cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy. His death was initially ruled a heart attack. Tests of his liver later found levels of arsenic 1,020 times above normal.

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