Serbia and Kosovo reach an agreement to jointly manage their border crossings, after a series of clashes on the ground, the European Union says.

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Serbia agrees Kosovo border deal

With the rainy weather recently , lawns are producing bumper crops of mushrooms. And doctors at Georgetown University Hospital are offering some advice: No matter how tempting the fungi, don’t yank them out of the ground and pop them into your mouth . Physicians offer the cautionary tale of Frank Constantinopla, 49, who after a Sept. 12 rainstorm looked in wonder at his backyard in Springfield, Va. “Oh, there’re so many mushrooms,” Constantinopla recalls thinking. “They look so lovely; I’m so lucky.” Read full article > >

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Two men who ate poisonous mushrooms survive

The crowd was too loud at Fed­Ex Field, and rookie nose tackle Chris Neild didn’t hear linebacker London Fletcher change the defensive call. When the ball was snapped, Neild ran right into the man next to him, Adam Carriker, and by happenstance ended up dragging New York quarterback Eli Manning to the ground for his first career sack. Read full article > >

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Redskins’ upgraded defensive line pays quick dividends

About the daters … John:  To be able to run super fast. Lizard:  The ability to float above the ground, because then I would never trip. Don’t believe the myth — dancers are not graceful. Read full article > >

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Date Lab: A second date might hinge on the donkeys

Even as many senior Afghan officials echoed President Hamid Karzai, closer to the ground, local leaders and ordinary people expressed fears of civil war.

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Karzai Welcomes Withdrawal, but Many Afghans Are Wary

Two years after its incredible landing, the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane has finally reached North Carolina. The wingless plane traveled on the ground this week from New Jersey, making its final stop at the Carolina Aviation Museum on Friday. Hundreds…

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‘Miracle’ Plane Lands at Museum

Residents of Daraa, the Syrian city recently under siege, say they’ve pulled 13 bodies from the ground in the city’s rural outskirts in what appears to be a mass grave. The bodies belong to Abdullah Abdul Aziz Aba Zaid, four of his six children, six…

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Syrians Discover ‘Mass Grave’

Half an hour had passed on the ground, but the American commandos raiding Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani hideaway had yet to find their long-sought target.

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Bin Laden discovered ‘hiding in plain sight’

Gaddafi strikes back? Mobs ransacked and then burned to the ground Britain’s embassy complex in Tripoli early Sunday and vandalized Italy’s. The attack came hours after the regime accused NATO airstrikes of killing Gaddafi’s second youngest son and…

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British, Italian Embassies Attacked in Tripoli

French commandos should be deployed on the ground in Libya, a senior French official suggests, despite a UN resolution that forbids a force of occupation.

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French Libya ground role mooted

Japan has been struck with so many aftershocks since the devastating magnitude 9.0 one on March 11 that people are reporting “earthquake sickness,” a feeling of dizziness, anxiety, and the sensation that the ground is shaking when it isn’t. Dr. Hideaki…

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‘Phantom Quakes’ Unsettle Japan

A NATO general has struck back at French criticism and said his organization is indeed protecting civilians in Libya. As a result of the stalemate on the ground, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said earlier that NATO was not doing enough to take…

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NATO: We’re ‘Doing a Great Job’

Pro-government demonstrators in Syria have surrounded the Damascus bureau of Al Jazeera and are threatening to burn it to the ground after the network covered the regime’s massacre of protesters. Police fired into a crowd in the town of Sanamein on…

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Syria Protests Leave Dozens Dead

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Diane Sawyer Tuesday that Muammar Gaddafi’s confidants have reached out on his behalf to explore a possible exit. But on the ground, Gaddafi’s forces appear to be winning, carrying out assaults on the towns of…

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Gaddafi Continues Ground Assault

Huge shock absorbers, walls that slide and Teflon foundation pads that isolate buildings from the ground all help explain why medium- and high-rise structures in Japan remained standing in the wake of the country’s largest earthquake on record , construction experts said Friday.

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Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage