AP - Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across larger than a dinner plate and the biggest animal eye on earth.
AP - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired and arguably corrupted millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.
AP - A government inspection of slaughterhouses found significant problems with the treatment of cattle and two of the nation’s largest beef processors both of which provide meat for the National School Lunch Program were slapped with humane handling violations.
Reuters - Five suspected Taliban militants blew
themselves up in a house close to Kabul’s old city on
Wednesday, avoiding capture by besieging Afghan security
forces, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.
AP - In an “astonishing” scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday.
AP - A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda Tuesday as the Islamic republic’s president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong U.S. objections to the project.
AP - Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something was wrong when the papers piled up outside their home.
AP - A dog was found alive and in relatively good shape after spending eight days trapped in the rubble of a building that exploded, critically injuring the pup’s owner.
Reuters - A woman hemorrhages to
death as she lies screaming in agony in a Spartan hut in a
remote region of Afghanistan. There is no doctor or midwife to
help and the hospital is several days journey away.
AP - Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents’ homes to try to figure out what’s happening beneath the earth’s surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes.
AP - A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing.
SPACE.com - A colossal
black hole has been spotted exiting its home galaxy, kicked out after a huge
cosmic merger took place.
AP - Frightened by headlines about Lasik side effects? Lasik gets all the advertising, but there are half a dozen alternate eye surgeries from a simpler laser approach to implantable lenses that might solve your squint.
AP - First, there was a run on energy-efficient light bulbs. When those ran out, people began asking for lamp oil. But when they started demanding clothespins in this land of mist and rain, it was clear Alaska’s capital city was caught in a serious energy crunch.
AFP - British energy giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell revealed Tuesday that their combined first-quarter net profits surged to around 8.6 billion pounds (17 billion dollars) thanks to record high oil prices.