Americans no longer consider cool comfort during the heat of summer as a luxury. A Pew Research survey finds that fully 70% now call home air-conditioning a necessity, a 19-percentage-point increase from the number who expressed that view a decade earlier. And most Americans no longer tolerate heat on the road either: 59% now consider car air conditioning a necessity, up from 41% who took that view in the mid-1990s.
Stocks plummet
Traders fearful of a rupture in Europe's financial system retreated Wednesday from risky investments.
13 bodies found
U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday.
Taylor gets 50 years
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years imprisonment.
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