AP - Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them. -- read full article
AP - Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.
AFP - Oil prices rose above 136 dollars a barrel on Monday after major energy producers ruled out further output despite consumer fears the world faces a tight supply situation.
AFP - The 80-nation International Whaling Commission began meeting in Chile Monday to debate whether to lift a 22-year-old ban on commercial whale-hunting.
SPACE.com - When astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean stepped out of the
Apollo 12 lunar module in November 1969, they were within walking distance of
Surveyor 3, an unmanned U.S. spacecraft that had landed in April 1967. -- read full article
AP - Residents of this town nearly wiped off the map by a tornado are extending assistance to another Kansas community struck by a twister a year later. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid. -- read full article
AFP - The International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, was to meet on Monday in Chile to debate a possible resumption of commercial whale-hunting.
Reuters - Rescuers held little hope on
Monday of finding some 800 people missing from a capsized ferry
in the Philippines, as divers prepared to drill into the ship's
hull in the hope of finding survivors in air pockets.
AFP - The Jeddah energy summit, convened to address rocketing oil prices, called on Sunday for greater transparency and regulation in dealing and more investment in production.
AFP - The International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, is to meet next week in Chile to debate possibly allowing a resumption of commercial whale-hunting.
Reuters - An Iranian newspaper has been banned
after carrying articles critical of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's economic policies, the state Press TV satellite
station said on its website.
Reuters - More than 800 people were
missing on Monday after a Philippine ferry capsized in a
typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of destruction
across the archipelago.
LiveScience.com - This month's flooding in the Midwest is reminiscent of the Great
Flood of 1993, weather officials now say. But while a repeat of 1993 can't be ruled out, they say, this year is unlikely to match
that colossal disaster. -- read full article
