AP - An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday to the international space station to deliver supplies and equipment for its three-men crew, space officials said.
AP - As the House prepared to impose new fees on oil and gas taken from federal waters, some Senate Democrats said Wednesday that royalty breaks for energy companies ought to be abandoned.
AP - The number of elk in the Yellowstone National Park region infected with scabies, a skin infestation caused by mites, is up this year, state wildlife officials say. The disease can be fatal, especially when an animal's health has been weakened for other reasons, such as old age or disease.
AP - Scientists who tested monkeys with the resurrected 1918 killer flu virus now have a better idea of how the deadliest epidemic in history attacked and killed so many people — by over-amping the victims' own immune systems.
AP - A woman who claimed her New Orleans home was damaged by Hurricane Katrina and she watched her two daughters die in the flooding was sentenced Wednesday to prison for making it up.
AP - The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apocalypse, a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.
AFP - A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to trafficking rare and endangered species of butterflies into the United States, US justice authorities said.
AFP - Harsh winter weather dogged much of the United States, leaving scores of people dead, hundreds of thousands without electricity and jeopardizing California's citrus crops.
AP - Rebels in eastern Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, conservationists said Wednesday, warning they fear more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region.
AFP - Dani, 23, the oldest tiger in European captivity, will undergo a risky manicure to file its long claws, managers of the Stropkov zoo, in eastern Slovakia, announced.
AFP - Harsh winter weather has swept across much of the United States, leaving scores of people dead, hundreds of thousands without electricity and threatening to decimate California's citrus crops.
