LiveScience.com - A new tally of lowland gorillas has found massive and surprising numbers of these African primates alive and well in the Republic of Congo, Wildlife Conservation Society scientists announced.
Reuters - NASA scientists on Tuesday said the
surprise discovery of a sometimes toxic chemical on the surface
of Mars does not diminish the possibility of finding microbial
life on the Red Planet and asked for patience while they study
soil samples further.
AFP - The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday the dangers posed by pollution in Beijing had been exaggerated, as some competitors arrived for the Games wearing masks to protect their lungs.
AFP - With a tight grip on his flashlight, Tommy Cassoe looks like a Danish Indiana Jones as he crawls out of a bunker buried under the sand, one of 7,000 the Nazis built along Denmark's western shores to fend off an allied invasion.
Reuters - The United States said on Sunday
that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to
increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands
that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.
AP - Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi leaders failed Sunday to resolve differences over how to govern the oil-rich city of Kirkuk ? a dispute that is blocking provincial elections and stoking tension in the volatile north.
Reuters - Researchers who genetically
engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found
two pills that can mimic the effects -- and they have already
developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat
with them.
Reuters - U.S. federal agents have been given
new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic
devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the
Washington Post reported on Friday.
E! Online - Here's a match made in…a lab?
Reuters - Bob Dylan is opening up his vaults
for the first time in three years, with his label announcing on
Tuesday that it will issue a multi-disc album consisting of
late-era outtakes, previously unreleased recordings and live
tracks in October.
Reuters - A former JPMorgan Chase & Co private
banking executive has been indicted on charges of embezzling
about $5.4 million, according to federal court papers.
AP - Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square Sunday night, killing 16 and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in almost five years.
AFP - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that he will pick a vice presidential running mate who will "help me govern" and not just somebody "who I send off to go to funerals."
Reuters - A new, highly efficient material that
converts heat into electricity may one day help cars get the
most out of a gallon of gas, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
AP - The new leader at USA Track and Field sent a letter to President Bush asking him to deny Marion Jones' request to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.
AP - Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient.
Reuters - At least 36 people were killed
in clashes between security forces and militants in a part of
southwest Pakistan where nationalist rebels have fought a
low-level insurgency for years, paramilitary officials said on
Monday.
AP - A huge, granite-eating machine that spent the past eight months chewing a mile-long tunnel beneath a busy Manhattan office district is getting a rest, of sorts, after completing its journey to Grand Central Terminal.
