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The men began emerging like clockwork from Chile's San Jose Mine on Wednesday, embracing wives, children and rescue crews and looking remarkably composed after languishing for 69 days in the depths of a mine that easily could have been their tomb.

Getty Images photographer Mario Tama thought he was on his way to cover the Burning Man festival in Nevada when Hurricane Katrina started approaching the Gulf Coast. His editor redirected him to New Orleans, where he stayed throughout the storm. He returned to New Orleans more than 15 times in the past five years to show the rebounding spirit of the Crescent City. His images are now collected in a new book — Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent.

One of the largest wildfires in San Diego this year sent plumes of black smoke over East County. It briefly threatened a few structures and received a lot of attention from the public. It had some people asking who's responsible for alerting and informing the public during an emergency.

In Bangladesh, rice is the daily food for everyone. A genetically engineered strain of the crop is offering hope for surviving the long-lasting floods that are a product of climate change.

Shortages of food and gasoline were being felt in parts of Japan on Thursday nearly a week after a deadly earthquake and tsunami, as people hoarded basic items fearing that supplies would soon dry up.

An estimated 20 percent of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Doctors in San Diego are studying treatments for TBI to see if they prove effective.

Each year, thousands of baby sea turtles scramble from their nests in the Florida Panhandle's sandy beaches and Alabama coasts into the water. As the oil spill coats Gulf Coast beaches, rescuers are hatching a daring plan to save as many as 70,000 sea turtle eggs from the disaster.

In 2008, Jere Van Dyk set off from Kabul to write the authoritative book on the Taliban. That February, he became the second American journalist to be captured by the Taliban. In Captive, he tells his story.

Terry Walter estimates that his family of five earned about $48,000 last year. He's the third generation to work his land, and he faces a difficult combination of high debt levels and low profit margins that his father never had to worry about. Walter also worries about how he and his wife will afford to retire.

Bus drivers for the North County Transit District can expect to see their wages fall significantly next year, after a private company takes over the public bus contract. Labor representatives say this week’s decision to privatize more than 300 jobs could be a sign of things to come.