LOS ANGELES (AP) - When she traded in her Mousketeer ears for a surfboard and a modest one-piece bathing suit, Annette Funicello helped create a world as fanciful as Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - Police have discovered the body of one of France's most prominent lawyers washed up on a beach near his home in Brittany. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - A shark possibly 14 feet long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A royal penguin that became stranded on a beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home has died at a New Zealand zoo. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A thirsty and thin royal penguin has been found stranded on a New Zealand beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) - The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful - and valuable - land. Elsewhere on the same French island off the Medit... [Full Article]
The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running debate on whether federal dollars should be used to replenish stretches of sand that only a fraction of U.S.... [Full Article]
The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare that nobody has seen one alive, but scientists have proof the species still exists. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]