It may not be much to hope for but officials leading the efforts to rescue missing ferry passengers, most of them high-school students, are hoping "air pockets" in the sunken ship are keeping some alive. As many as 268 are still missing.

The state of New York's governor has taken aim at ads on New York City's subways that seek to drum up boob job business. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had Howard Glaser, his director of state operations, write the Metro Transit Authority about ceasing the ads.

Media reports say the FBI agent who killed a man while interrogating him on the Boston bombings has been cleared of any wrongdoing. The New York Times said that sources say he was cleared "by a prosecutor in Florida and by an F.B.I. internal review."

A new online poll of heart attack and stroke victims conducted by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation has found that over half of the respondents are not making the changes needed to ensure their health. The reason? Poor motivation.

After Canadian singer Justin Bieber's recent shenanigans, arguably his most serious, a petition to deport him appeared on the 'We the People' page of the White House's website. If successful, such a petition can force the government into a response.

Justin Bieber and his entourage, for this trip including his mentor, Usher and manager Scooter Braun, have decamped to Panama. While the Grammys were on — he was not nominated this year — Bieber and co. were on a Panamanian beach.

Superstar pop singer Elton John has struck out at Russia's anti-gay laws. On his website Wednesday the openly gay singer called the laws "vicious homophobia" that have "given extremists the cover to abuse people’s basic human rights.”

The Colorado school system has decided to drop its charges of sexual harassment against Hunter Yelton. The boy was suspended from school and charged with sexual harassment for kissing a girl in his class on the hand. He's all of 6.

World Spine Day events have concluded. National Chiropractic Week in Italy ends tomorrow and October is National Chiropractic Month in the United States.

'Believe', a follow-up to Justin Bieber's 2011 hit documentary, 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,' is set for release at Christmas, his manger said Sunday. Like that first film, 'Believe' was directed by Jon M. Chu.

The return for a Boston homeless man, Glen James on his act of honesty keeps growing. James turned in a backpack he found with $42,000 in it and another man, impressed by the deed, set up a donation website for him.

A group in the Canadian province of Alberta is claiming that the wounds on a dementia patient's face at a care home in Lethbridge, Alta. are a result of being bitten by mice. The owners of the St. Therese Villa claim the wounds are from a virus.

Apple's two newest products, the iPhone 5S and the cheaper iPhone 5C, will be available on September 20 and the 5C can already be pre-ordered. They'll be no pre-ordering of the 5S, however.

A 19-year-old New York man died Thursday after being struck in the head by the remote-controlled toy helicopter he was flying in a park. The blades of the flying toy took off a portion of his head.

On the one hand I do not really care about adults smoking pot. While I do consider it a gateway drug that has contributed negatively to many lives, like with alcohol, if adults partake in moderation and don't drive under the influence, it's fine by me.

Is it impolite to note that Anthony Weiner, a candidate for mayor of New York, has balls? Or better to say 'courage'? The thing is 'balls' fits a man named Weiner who sexted pictures of his penis to strange women, was exposed, yet didn't run and hide.

Does it seem odd that millions of us on this strange planet were staring at an iPhone or computer at the same time Tuesday, on a crazy hunt for something clever to tweet about a newly-minted #RoyalBaby? Don't we need better things to do?

Edward Snowden, a whistleblower to some and a leaker and traitor to the U.S. to others, remains holed up in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. However, he's completed an application for temporary asylum in Russia, it's now being reported.

A 2-year-old baby girl, Qiqi was left sleeping in her apartment by her parents in China and woke up by herself. Likely afraid, she crawled to the family's fourth-floor window and climbed up on the ledge, crying and moving dangerously close to the edge.

In a telephone interview with the Taliban's Shaheen Suhail, A.P. learned the insurgency group would consider an exchange with the Americans. U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was captured June 30, 2009 in Afghanistan and could be traded for detainees.