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New typhoon categorisation will be introduced this year to enhance people's alertness to stronger typhoons, Hong Kong Observatory Director Lam Chiu-ying says. AP - State officials overseeing the federal economic stimulus program in Massachusetts say they have no idea how the White House came up with one key pledge — the promise to save or create 79,000 jobs in the state.

For centuries, it's been rumored the Knights of Malta built an underground city beneath the Mediterranean island country. A new discovery gets closer to the truth.

A teenage girl and a man were rescued from the water after their boat capsized Thursday afternoon on Wolf Lake on the Southeast Side. A Chicago Fire Department helicopter dropped a pair of divers into the lake after two people were reported in the water near 134th Avenue about 3:20 p.m., Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said. A 14-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man were rescued by the divers, who swam them back to shore -- about 100 yards, Rodriguez said. Wolf Lake straddles the Indiana state line. The two were taken in good condition to St. Margaret Mercy Hospital in Hammond, Ind.