Reuters - Oil steadied on Wednesday, after a sharp fall the previous session on expectations that a faltering economy in top energy consumer the United States would hit demand growth.
AP - Three Chinese citizens were arrested Wednesday at Nairobi's international airport carrying dozens of pieces of ivory, including chopsticks, bracelets and carved figurines. -- read full article
AFP - The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Some U.S. weather forecasting models
suggested a high pressure ridge would move into the western
Midwest by late July which could mean hot and dry weather when
corn is in the midst of pollination, meteorologists said
Wednesday. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict. -- read full article
AFP - Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station made a new space walk to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said.
AP - Bulldozers worked Tuesday to reopen roads and clear tons of mud left by flash floods after thunderstorms unleashed downpours on mountain slopes burned bare by California wildfires. -- read full article
AP - Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency's deputy director told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - The space station's two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that proved to be tame compared to last week's work with explosives.
AFP - French researchers on Tuesday said that gene therapy, tested on lab animals, showed promise in combatting the tragic neurogenerative disease known as Huntington's.
LiveScience.com - The Jurassic Period's Archaeopteryx is famous as the world's first known bird, but now-extinct reptiles such as pterosaurs and kuehneosaurs were flying as far back as 225 million years ago, during the Triassic and before large dinosaurs roamed the Earth. -- read full article
AP - Fire crews battling nearly 300 blazes burning across California are getting help from a pilotless plane that transmits real-time images of hot spots and flare-ups to commanders in the field.
