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- Britain’s “Frisky Fifties” have swapped the boardroom for the bedroom but one in 10 could be putting themselves at risk of infection by having sex without a contraceptive. |
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- Some of the 1,213 photos taken by Nasa’s Messenger probe has revealed that Mercury is shrinking as it is getting older, forming wrinkle-like ridges. |
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- Zoologists said they had identified a shrew-like creature called a grey-faced sengi living in a small community in remote Tanzania. |
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- Researchers have discovered a material made by sculpting a composed of tightly packed nanostructures that resembles tiny nails and has the potential to repel almost any liquid. |
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- An unusual meeting of art and medicine has come up with a gown that will give medical students an understanding of what it is to go under the scalpel. |
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- A new research by British scientists raises the prospect of babies being born through entirely artificial means, and possibly sidelining men from the process of creating life. |
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- The British government is set to encourage children to play “active computer games” to tackle the childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ in the country. |
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- A new research has cautioned divers not to wear sunscreen which could infect the symbiotic microalgae that the corals rely on for nutrition. |
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- AP - The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system that today’s drugs can’t reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses ? and they’ |
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- AP - Longtime friends Chase Torgerson and Cody Charpentier were driving along a northwestern Minnesota highway near Wilton when they saw a car fly through the air and crash into a median. |
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- Reuters - Standard & Poor’s on Thursday cut its “AAA” ratings on FGIC Corp’ |
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- AP - What are the odds? Leo Fiyalko, 92, a legally blind golfer with macular degeneration, scored a hole-in-one at a Clearwater country club. |
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- AP - The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. |
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- AP - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has a couple of things going for him at this weekend’s Republican caucuses: a band of highly motivated supporters and a natural appeal to Maine’s like-minded independents. |
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- AP - Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say. |
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- AP - Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill a few weeks later, she was floored. “I just couldn’t believe it,” |
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- AFP - Climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis, according to a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing Thursday in Science magazine. |
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- AP - Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors. |
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- AP - A soldier shot dead an endangered Sumatran tiger that was caught in a trap in western Indonesia, then skinned it and distributed its meat to villagers, a conservationist said Thursday. |
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- LiveScience.com - An ancient iron ore mine discovered in Peru reveals civilizations in the Andes mined the valuable rock before the Inca Empire. |
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- Reuters - Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl MVP honors last year provided the inspiration for younger brother Eli to lead his team to the title game, the New York Giants quarterback said on Thursday. |
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- Reuters - Giving a woman an infusion of Epsom salts when she goes into premature labor can help protect her baby from cerebral palsy, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. |
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- AP - The Chinese government on Thursday said it had stopped production and exports from a company whose insecticide-tainted frozen dumplings sickened 10 people in Japan, in the latest crisis to tarnish China’s food export business. |
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- AP - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year’s Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt. |
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- AP - A top prosecutor should have known not to delete hundreds of e-mails that a court had ordered him to produce, the general counsel for his office testified Thursday in a hearing on whether Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal should be held in contempt. |
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- AP - A former cellmate of a woman accused of killing her month-old baby by burning the girl in a microwave testified Thursday that the woman confessed to the crime, saying the baby “fit right in” the oven. |
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- AP - An American Indian tribe has closed the child-care centers at its two casinos while authorities investigate a reported sexual assault by a child against a 3-year-old boy. |
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- AFP - A US federal judge on Thursday blocked the extradition of Panama’s former dictator Manuel Noriega to France, saying he had not exhausted his possible appeals. |
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- AP - A federal judge ruled Thursday that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega cannot be extradited to face French money-laundering charges until his appeals in U.S. courts are exhausted. |
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- AP - Prosecutors can claim during the trial of a former sailor that he made coded references to terrorism plots, a federal judge ruled Thursday. |
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- AP - An attorney convicted of destroying a church music director’s computer containing child pornography has agreed to give up his law license for a year, attorneys said. |
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- AP - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year’s Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt. |
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- AP - Investigators have verified 14 cases of abuse by a nightshift nurse who told police he abused nearly 100 patients at health care centers since the 1980s, authorities said Thursday. |
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- Reuters - The U.S. military on Thursday formally charged a Guantanamo captive with the attempted murder of two U.S. soldiers and a translator in a grenade attack that took place in Afghanistan when the prisoner was 17. |
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- AP - Two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station last year were carrying low-grade fireworks, as they claimed, not the dangerous explosives as charged by federal prosecutors, the FBI has determined. |
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- AFP - Lawyers for President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend Carla Bruni asked a Paris court on Thursday to order budget airline Ryanair to pay damages for featuring a photo of the couple in an ad campaign. |
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- AP - Watergate conspirator Jeb Magruder pleaded guilty Thursday to a traffic charge stemming from two crashes that happened as he had a stroke while at the wheel last summer. |
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- AP - The jury in actor Wesley Snipes’ tax case passed its first full day of deliberation Wednesday without a verdict. |
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- Reuters - U.S. consumer safety regulators typically take almost seven months to inform the public of dangerous products in cases where the manufacturers were fined for not promptly reporting the defect, watchdog group Public Citizen said on Thursday. |
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- Reuters - Motorola Inc , the world’s No. 3 mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it is exploring strategic alternatives including a possible separation of its mobile devices business from other units. |
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- Reuters - Google Inc on Thursday reported disappointing quarterly results on rising capital spending and costs for acquiring advertising customers, unnerving investors who sent its shares down 6.5 percent. |
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- Reuters - Stocks ended higher on Thursday after a major bond insurer reassured investors about its stability, fueling a rebound by financial shares hammered recently by the prospect of crumbling credit markets. |
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