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Bogdan Bitik was shot while on the Antonivka bridge in Kherson. He was working with an Italian journalist who was also shot but survived. Ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation.

The Cutty Sark, the historic British ship that once represented the peak of development of sailing cargo vessels, has been badly damaged by fire in London. Police are investigating reports that the fire might have been an act of arson.

Officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday said it launched an operation to drive Taliban insurgents from villages on the outskirts of Kandahar. Afghan government troops have been joined by Canadian forces in the operation.

The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

"Mudlarking" is the hobby of searching for keepsakes along muddy creek banks. An old marble is enough to get people outdoors for this pursuit best performed in the winter.

Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch, 19, is set to return to the U.S. on April 12. She suffered multiple injuries when she and her Army maintenance unit were ambushed after taking a wrong turn near the central Iraq city of Nasiriyah. In her home community of Wirt County, West Virginia, Lynch is regarded as a hero. NPR's Noah Adams profiles the people of Wirt County, where there's a strong tradition of military service -- see some of his photos of the people and places.

Native people in North America are wearing Ukrainian scarves in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. They say it's a show of support from their sovereign nations to another sovereign nation.

President Bush visits New Orleans and nearby parishes that were hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. The president spent the night aboard the USS Iwo Jima docked in the Mississippi River near downtown New Orleans.

A 2,000-foot tower, proposed by developer Christopher Carley and designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, would rise above the lakefront... and give Chicago the nation's two tallest buildings.

During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, historian Ed Kohn describes the disaster — and how a little-known police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt championed the efforts to help New Yorkers survive the heat.