AFP - Britain is considering plans for its own moon shot, the BBC said, citing plans submitted to the body that funds British space exploration.
Reuters - Mississippi is in talks with State
Farm, the largest U.S. home insurer, to settle hundreds of
lawsuits over its payments for homes wrecked by Hurricane
Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, officials from the
state and company said.
AP - California seismologists launched an earthquake-readiness campaign Tuesday with the slogan "Shift Happens."
Reuters - Supporters of legislation to expand
stem cell research predicted victory on Tuesday, saying they
have a tide of public opinion to boost them and perhaps enough
votes in Congress to override an expected veto from President
George W. Bush.
AFP - NASA's Viking Mars probes may have found living organisms when they landed on Mars 30 years ago, but possibly destroyed them by exposing them to water, according to two astrobiologists.
AFP - A wildfire tore through the exclusive enclave of Malibu north of Los Angeles, devastating eight homes as it ripped through several acres of prime real estate, fire officials said.
AP - Last year was the warmest on record for the United States, with readings pushed over higher than normal by the unusual and unseasonably warm weather during the last half of December.
AP - The volcano that destroyed Montserrat's capital in 1997 shot a cloud of ash more than five miles into the sky on Monday, and one of the island's chief scientists said the blast was "a warning call."
AP - The beluga whales swimming off Alaska's largest city are at considerable risk of going extinct unless something changes, a federal study says.
