A beach favored by Princes William and Harry has been voted one of the most polluted in the country. Rock in Cornwall - an area the princes and their friends regularly frequent - did not meet the basic requirement for water quality, according to The Marine Conservation Society (MCS).

The society added swimming in the sea at the idyllic beach was "not recommended."

New insights into the life of one of America's founding fathers are coming to light thanks to the discovery of previously unknown letters by a California professor.

Alan Houston, a political science professor at the University of California San Diego, discovered 47 letters by and about Benjamin Franklin during the last day of a research trip to the British Library in November 2007.

People in Nebraska, and near every other state in the union, are happier than the folks in Florida.

Florida was ranked 50th by MainStreet.com's Happiness Index, which takes into account income, debt, employment and foreclosures.

A severe sandstorm blanketed Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh for three hours on Tuesday halting flights to and from the city and causing 70 road accidents.

The wall of dust also forced Kuwait to suspend exports of oil at its three ports until the storm subsided.

Instead of marshmallows with hot cocoa, firefighters topped 43,000 pounds of burning cocoa with foam and water as they battled the blaze on the highway where a tractor trailer had overturned, spilling its load of cocoa, which then caught fire.

Firefighters worked knee deep in the piles of smoldering powdered cocoa, hosing it with foam and water that sent some of it airborne as a reddish-brown cloud, while much of the cocoa turned into a thick, brown sludge.