AP - So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.
AP - Who says cats and dogs don't get along? Workers at the Meriden Humane Society are marveling at a short-haired mother cat who has willingly adopted a six-day-old Rottweiler puppy that was rejected by its mother.
Reuters - Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil
exporter and a key U.S. ally, said on Wednesday the kingdom
does not see any obstacle to cooperating with Russia on
developing a nuclear energy program.
AFP - The most powerful snowstorm of the season has pummeled the US, sticking an icy dagger into the heart of Valentine's Day and slowing the federal government in Washington.
AFP - Hong Kong conservationists have criticised the government for failing to protect reef fish in the city's marine parks after a survey showed fish populations had not increased from low levels.
AFP - As activists clash with Japanese whalers on their Antarctic hunt, other anti-whaling campaigners are doing the once unthinkable -- getting out chopsticks and tasting whale meat.
AP - Months before Hurricane Katrina hit, the Small Business Administration deliberately shunned disaster planning that would have sped aid to thousands of companies in dire need, saying it would yield only "limited benefits," investigators say.
