Reuters - A tropical storm watch was issued for Bermuda on Friday as Hurricane Bertha, the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season, neared the wealthy mid-Atlantic British colony, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

AP - The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy.

AP - Will the Mars lander's next baking test of soil and ice be its last?

AP - Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves.

AFP - The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had charged Texas-based El Paso Corporation, a major energy firm, with fraud for improperly overstating its oil and gas reserves to investors.

AFP - Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station spent six hours in space Wednesday to retrieve an explosive bolt believed the cause of the Soyuz spacecraft's dangerously high-speed descent and landing on two recent missions, NASA said.

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.