AP - More strong thunderstorms were forecast across the nation's heartland Friday as a low pressure system continues it trek across the Plains. Forecasters said the greatest threat for severe weather was in Illinois.

AP - The newest space station addition, a giant Japanese science lab, is about to get bigger. After installing TV cameras and removing covers during a spacewalk Thursday, the astronauts at the linked shuttle and station got ready for their next challenge: attaching a storage shed to the bus-size lab. The 210-mile construction job was set for Friday afternoon.

AP - More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers.

AFP - Cairn India, a unit of British exploration firm Cairn Energy Plc, has secured rights to explore oil and natural gas deposits off Sri Lanka's coast, the island's petroleum minister said Friday.

AP - The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.

AP - New Orleans is giving residents until July to vacate federally issued trailers intended as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.

AP - NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world — and particularly the U.S. — another way of reaching the international space station.

AP - The newest space station addition, a giant Japanese science lab, is about to get bigger.

AP - Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made energy a key focus of his first trip to western Europe on Thursday, promising Germany closer energy cooperation and offering Europe more say in Russian oil and gas deliveries.

AFP - A NASA spokesman on Thursday said that the launch of its GLAST space telescope, which will allow scientists to look deep into the universe, has been delayed until Wednesday June 11 at the earliest.