This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” August 14, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: There is a whole cottage industry growing around the belief that the world may come to an end in 2012. Many new Web sites, …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Livingston Awards honoring outstanding work by journalists under age 35 were given to four reporters this week for their work covering Syria’s civil war, mishandled sexual assault complaints and lax training for armed security guards. The $10,000 awards are the largest all-media general reporting prizes in …

MADRID – Basque separatist group ETA has reacted angrily to a joint Spanish and French police operation that has seized a cache of hidden weapons. ETA describes the raid, in which 26 firearms and 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosive material were found in the French city of Biarritz on …

LOS ANGELES – Authorities said broken toilets forced a Honolulu-bound jetliner to divert to Los Angeles International Airport. An American Airlines spokeswoman said Flight 005 took off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Sunday morning on a scheduled 8 1/2 -hour nonstop flight to Hawaii. It landed at LAX at about …

MECHANICSBURG, Ohio – Officials say a man died on his family farm in central Ohio when he fell into a grain feed mixer. Madison County Sheriff Jim Sabin tells The Columbus Dispatch that 34-year-old Austin Ayars was found dead Sunday at the dairy farm near Mechanicsburg. Family members told investigators …

BUCHAREST, Romania – The Romanian transportation minister has resigned after calling the wives of millions of Romanians working abroad “whores.” Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday accepted the resignation of Ioan Rus a day after the minister said in a TV interview that the 3 million Romanians working abroad were …

Staying indoors, wearing hospital gowns, walking on cold floors, this is not the summer vacation most children wish for, but for many kids fighting cancer, sadly, it is a reality. Offering an escape from the world of medicine, where kids can just be kids is Camp No Worries in Southern …

A New York City kindergartener who had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure is home with a new kidney after more than 100 people who volunteered to be tested as potential donors for her. The Daily News said Sunday that 6-year-old Kinsey Saleh went home to Queens earlier this month …

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says a delegation of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels has left Djibouti and is flying to Geneva on a U.N.-chartered plane to take part in talks aimed at ending the Yemen conflict. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the plane left Djibouti at 7:10 p.m. local …

JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan’s government is accusing Sudan of bombing two places within its territory this week, killing at least one soldier and wounding others. Peter Hoth, a state minister for information, said Wednesday that a suspected Sudanese warplane bombed Maban and Renk counties of Upper Nile state …