AP - Discovery's astronauts talked sports and enjoyed the sweeping views of Earth more than 200 miles below Thursday as their flight wound down and the international space station was left farther and farther behind.

AP - Gasoline prices should peak at $4.15 a gallon this summer, the government says — finally an encouraging word for motorists who might be thinking the cost of a fill-up will just keep climbing.

AFP - Astronomers will get a chance to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays and look deeper into the universe and its origins after NASA launched the high-tech GLAST telescope into orbit .

AP - A tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in the remote hills of western Iowa on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring 40, and setting off a frantic search to reach others in the piles of debris and downed trees.

AP - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.

AP - Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship. But outside experts expressed caution about the claim.

AP - NASA gave shuttle Discovery's astronauts some well-deserved time off Thursday as their flight wound down and the international space station was left farther and farther behind.

Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday called on Congress to preserve tax cuts passed by the Bush administration, approve a free trade agreement with Colombia and drill for more domestic oil.

AFP - The United States has called for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent bid to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which is accused of slaughtering the creatures.

AFP - Indonesia launched two tsunami alert buoys with US help Wednesday to boost an early warning system for the country worst hit by the 2004 killer wave, the US embassy said.