A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District’s risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled “Great Sex for You.”

Four baby pythons escaped from a container aboard a passenger plane in Australia, leading to a search that forced the cancellation of two flights, the airline said Thursday.

The rusting wreck of the first American vessel sunk during World War II has been found off Australia’s southeastern coast, ocean researchers said Thursday.

Communications and technology company Harris Corp. said on Thursday it was picked to supply more Rugged Deployable Satellite Communications Terminals to the U.S. Navy’s First Construction Division, or Seabees, in a two-year, $30 million follow-on order.

Former world record-holder Asafa Powell looked comfortable in his first competitive 100-meter race of 2009, clocking 10.23 seconds to win at the season-opening World Athletics Tour meet on Thursday.

Thousands of firefighters in southern Australia were on alert Tuesday over fears that strong winds and dry conditions could whip still-burning wildfires into a dangerous new threat to residents.

Hundreds of schools were ordered closed and millions of residents warned by mobile phone message Monday that conditions in wildfire-scarred southern Australia could become deadly again.

Firefighters in southeastern Australia managed Friday to keep four major blazes under control despite hot temperatures and erratic winds.

Officials warned Tuesday the wildfires that devastated southern Australia this month could flare anew when high winds and hot temperatures sweep the region later this week, and raised the death toll from the blazes to 210.

With terrifying memories of Australia’s deadliest wildfires still fresh, residents chose to flee rather than protect their homes Monday when new blazes broke containment lines and threatened the fringes of the country’s second-largest city.