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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting ECHONEWS to 80360, or email us Click here for details A Tragedy struck while Cheznye Emmons, 23, of Morrins Close, Great Wakering, was travelling through south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21.

FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013, AT 1:11 A.M. EDT - This April 16, 2013 photo shows items on display at the Civil War exhibit at the Heritage Center of the Union League in Philadelphia.

The sun came out Friday, giving a sun-splashed feel to the West Virginia Strawberry Festival in Buckhannon.

The World Health Organization has issued a blunt assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging for the first time that there are concerns the virus may be spreading from person to person, at least in a limited way.

The puzzlement of whether one decision, just one, can change your destiny is where the poignant author Michelle de Kretser takes her latest novel, "Questions of Travel." Introducing two separate stories, the author takes the reader on a possible yacht race, a space ship, a bumblebee piggyback ride, or a flight out over the oceans -- so to speak.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.

North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.

A five-year-old British girl who died in a pool at a hotel in Egypt has been named by her family, according to reports.

Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend.

Planned Parenthood endorsed Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe Thursday hours after the Democrat bashed opponent Ken Cuccinelli on the abortion issue.

A Bristol-based entrepreneur is bringing previously hidden fashion gems from the Baltic States to the UK for the first time.

Road-tripping to a national park makes for an easy -- and spectacular -- summer getaway.

Female panda Er Shun eats bamboo at the Panda House at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China on February 11, 2012.

When the Economist Intelligence Unit released its most recent Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, the spotlight, as ever, fell on the world's most expensive cities.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, file photo, a passenger walks through an American Airlines baggage claim area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Q Sunday in San Francisco could be a gigantic tie-up. We have Bay to Breakers, the Amgen Tour bicycle race and the Alcatraz swim.

Senator Mike Duffy is listed as being on Senate business during the last federal election on two days when documents show he was campaigning for the Conservatives in the Greater Toronto Area.

A prehistoric roar drowns out the delighted squeals of children madly dashing out of the path of the giant creature plodding towards them.

Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock from the United States.

A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people including nine Japanese tourists on board survived with injuries, police said.