Four honor guards who escorted the casket bearing former Philippine president Corazon Aquino stood motionless during the nine-hour and 12-mile funeral procession of the departed leader Wednesday.

Police officer Danilo Malab Jr., 25, army soldier Antonio Cadiente, 23, air force officer Gener Laguindan, 24, and navy officer Edgardo Rodriguez, 37, endured thirst, hunger, rain and the discomfort of not peeing during the unexpected lengthy procession from a church in Manila to a cemetery in Paranaque City.

Three teams of blind sailors raced one mile through Boston Harbor on Tuesday steering their boats by feeling the wind.

The four-man team composed of skipper Matthew Chao, Bruce Howell and two trained guides, all legally blind, won the race from the Charlestown Navy Yard to the Boston Harbor Hotel to become the first champion of the annual event organized by the Carroll Center for the Blind (CCB).

The Mexican Navy has detected and seized more than one ton of cocaine hidden in bellies of frozen sharks on board a container ship coming from Costa Rica.

X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped detect the hidden drugs on the Marshall Islands-flagged Dover Strait after it docked at the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan state, Mexican Navy Commander Eduardo Villa said Wednesday.

Former President George H.W. Bush will celebrate his 85th birthday on Friday by jumping off a plane, the fourth time the 41st president will have done so since his days as the youngest U.S. Navy pilot in WWII.

Bush, father of 43rd president George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will make a tandem jump with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team over Kennebunkport in Maine.

Decommissioned U.S. Navy warship USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was sunk Wednesday morning 6 ˝ miles off Key West in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to become the world's second-largest artificial coral reef.

A total 42 explosive charges were used to create a pattern of holes in the side of the ship and its decks sending it 140 feet deep into its final resting place in the Gulf of Mexico in less than two minutes. The Artificial Reefs of the Keys led the $8.6 million project to make the Vandenberg an artificial reef.