ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Republican John McCain promised Americans on Thursday that "change is coming" to Washington if he is elected president on November 4 and he pledged to overcome partisan rancor by working with Democrats.
A 19-square-mile chunk of ice shelf has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. The 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.