AP - The microblogging site Twitter Inc. was out of commission early Sunday for the roughly 100 million users around the world.

AP - No fewer than 65 House seats across the country — an overwhelming majority held by Democrats — are at risk of changing political hands this fall, enough to bolster Republican hopes of regaining power.

AP - As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used.

AP - The United Arab Emirates says it plans to block some messaging and web services on BlackBerry smart phones beginning in October.

AFP - The death toll from Pakistan's worst floods in living memory neared 900 on Sunday as outbreaks of waterborne disease emerged and penniless survivors streamed out of the raging torrents.

AFP - Firefighters on Sunday pressed on with battling forest fires that have killed at least 30 people, destroyed thousands of homes and forced the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of emergency workers.