AP - In a daring spacewalk, two space station astronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsule Thursday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown off their hands with firecracker force.

AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm and is moving slowly toward Bermuda, but could re-strengthen in the next 24 hours.

AP - The frozen remains of two woolly mammoths — long extinct Ice Age elephants — went on display Friday in Taiwan.

AP - In a daring spacewalk, two space station astronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsule Thursday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown off their hands with firecracker force.

AP - She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.

AFP - China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people due to shrinking arable land and climate change.

AFP - OPEC on Thursday cut its long-term estimate for world oil demand, saying consumption by 2030 would be 3.7 percent lower than previously forecast as soaring prices drive efforts to save energy.

AFP - Paris city hall was swamped by 1,600 papier mache pandas on Thursday, part of a WWF campaign to highlight the urgent need to protect the vanishing species.