AP - Passengers aboard a Canadian bus fled in horror as a fellow traveler viciously attacked his seat mate, repeatedly stabbing him and then severing his head, witnesses said.
AP - From World War II hero to dancer and award-winning actor, Charles Durning has lived a storied life. The 85-year-old added to that resume Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to one for his idol, James Cagney.
AP - Four social workers were among nine people charged Thursday in the death of a disabled 14-year-old girl who authorities say wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds.
AP - The Phoenix spacecraft has tasted Martian water for the first time, scientists reported Thursday. By melting icy soil in one of its lab instruments, the robot confirmed the presence of frozen water lurking below the Martian permafrost. Until now, evidence of ice in Mars’ north pole region has been largely circumstantial.
AP - A suburban Kansas City man was found guilty Thursday of murder in the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of a 41-year-old woman. He could be sentenced to death.
AFP - NASA scientists said Thursday the Phoenix lander exploring Mars had confirmed water on the planet after analysis of a soil sample from the Red planet’s surface.
SPACE.com - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has confirmed the
existence of water ice on Mars.
Reuters - A man sleeping on a
Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was
killed and decapitated by his seatmate as horrified passengers
fled to safety in the night, witnesses and police said on
Thursday.
AP - Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops.
AP - The homeless woman was nauseated, dizzy, drenched with sweat, dehydrated and sobbing with fear. She had heat exhaustion and was on the verge of heat stroke. But she had come to the right place, a church turned into a refuge from the overpowering heat.
AFP - Surging oil prices helped US energy giant ExxonMobil to a 14 percent jump in quarterly net profit to 11.68 billion dollars in results Thursday short of most forecasts on Wall Street.
LiveScience.com - A spate of construction crane incidents has brought an ongoing builders’ issue to public awareness, according to Phillip Ezzell, a former crane operator and now CEO of Crane Safety Associates of America.
Reuters - Seven years after the September 11
attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named “the long
war” against global extremism as its top priority and pledged
to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia
through dialogue.
AP - For 14 months, Ana Escobar studied the tiny fingers of every passing baby, searching for a girl with pinkies that curved gracefully outward, just like those of her missing daughter.
Reuters - Standard & Poor’s on Thursday cut
ratings on all three major U.S. automakers deeper into junk
status, citing expected losses due to higher gas prices and a
weakening U.S. economy.