Reuters - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic
storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (kilometers)
away from the United States and the Caribbean islands, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center said.
LiveScience.com - Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States
might have rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered
over Canada and set North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off
of animals and humans. -- read full article
SPACE.com - Saturn's
rings and moons turned out wilder than any scientist could have imagined, but
unknowns remain as the Cassini spacecraft concludes its primary mission and embarks
on a new one. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the
discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history
being made today. -- read full article
AP - A tropical depression scattered rains across Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it was likely to reach tropical storm force. -- read full article
Reuters - South Korea said on Sunday it was
implementing a multi-stage contingency plan aimed at reducing
energy consumption before the skyrocketing oil prices push
Asia's fourth-largest economy into a full-fledged crisis.
AFP - At least 16 people were killed and more than 20,000 marooned as heavy rains over the past week triggered landslides and floods in southeast Bangladesh, an official said Monday.
AP - A panda who was relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said. -- read full article
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
SPACE.com - A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September. -- read full article
