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President Bush visits New Orleans and nearby parishes that were hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. The president spent the night aboard the USS Iwo Jima docked in the Mississippi River near downtown New Orleans.

The Freedom Tower, which will be built at the World Trade Center site in New York City, is being completely redesigned. Wednesday's announcement follows weeks of criticism over building and security plans. Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports.

In Arkansas, two sheriff's deputies and a police officer have been removed from duty after video posted to social media appeared to show them beating a suspect who was down on the ground.

A helicopter flying across London seeking to land due to bad weather clipped a crane atop one of the city's tallest residential towers and fell into a street crowded with rush hour traffic. The pilot and one person on the ground died, and 13 others were injured.

Philadelphians tend to climb when their sports teams win. The city has tried greasing the lampposts. With the Eagles now Super Bowl-bound, it's amping up efforts to keep fans on the ground.

Police in Hamburg, Germany, said the shooting killed eight people, apparently including the perpetrator, while an unspecified number of other people were wounded, some of them seriously.

So far, the Hamas-Fatah battles in the Gaza Strip have not provoked any major fighting in the West Bank. But there are fears that Fatah could launch an offensive there if its forces continue to lose ground in Gaza.

An American F-16 shot down an armed Turkish drone in northeast Syria. Officials said it was the first time the U.S. shot down an aircraft from Turkey, a NATO ally.

Some Londoners may not be much interested in sports - but one image from these Olympic Games will surely remain with them, long after the cheers and crowds have faded away. It is the spectacle of their mayor, Boris Johnson, brandishing a Union flag in either hand, and dangling helplessly from a zip wire 20 feet above the ground.

The rate at which the ice is shrinking at the ocean's edge in the West Antarctic has increased by 70 percent over the past decade, an analysis of satellite measurements suggests.