(CNN) -- The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil is dead, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night, almost 10 years after the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.

Osama bin Laden -- the longtime leader of al Qaeda -- was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told CNN.

In an address to the nation late Sunday night, Obama called bin…

Negotiators work overnight as budget deal deadline looms

Washington (CNN) -- With the deadline for a partial government shutdown less than 24 hours away, negotiators worked into Friday morning on a spending plan for the rest of the current fiscal year after a fourth White House meeting in 48 hours between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to reach agreement..

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Redondo Beach's King Harbor is inundated with dead fish. Experts believe the sardines sought safe harbor from a storm, but consumed the oxygen in their small refuge.

Redondo Beach awoke Tuesday to find a carpet of death laid atop the water, as if Davy Jones himself had burped up a couple hundred years worth of lunches. Thousands of silvery sardines floated atop the King Harbor marina fin-to-fin, with hundreds of thousands more, perhaps millions, piled on the coppery bottom,…

• Crop circles found in Yogya rice field

  YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - A large circle and geometric pattern local residents say were created by a UFO have been found in a rice field in Krasakan hamlet in Sleman, Yogyakarta.…

The Sumerians: The history of Ancient Iraq is truly an epic of human endeavor, 3000 BC, Sumerians pioneered major discoveries and inventions. They are the inventors of the first system of writing, the founders of the first school, the pioneers of mathematical principles and calculations. From them spring the first astronomers and astrologers, the first legislation and jurisprudence, the first library and the first pharmacy, the first prose and the first…

seems like alot of alien movies for 2011 ??? Its going to be an exciting year for sure.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3340736793/

Apparently, all the greatest endeavors in human history have been to hide the existence of Transformers.

http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/262-new-transformers-trailer-rewrites-moon-landing-history

In the first "…