AP - For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.

AFP - Swiss companies are planning to build the world's highest solar power station in the country's southern Alpine region, one of the project developers, electricity group BKW FMB, said on Friday.

Reuters - A red-breasted bird discovered by accident in the forests of Gabon is a new species, U.S. scientists said on Friday.

AP - Kelly Johnson snips pieces from a blood-stained, blue-striped shirt, then swabs the neck and armpits for sweat. Down the hall, Samantha Glass watches as a chemical reaction reveals a fingerprint on a juice bottle.

AP - A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.

AP - Iran and Turkey signed several cooperation agreements Thursday but failed to complete a deal for building a new natural gas pipeline — a project the United States has opposed.

SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken its first-ever picture of a single particle of rusty Martian dust with one of its microscopes.

Reuters - A tropical wave moving over the Virgin Islands could become a tropical depression Thursday but probably won't threaten the oil rich Gulf of Mexico, weather models and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. EDT report.

AP - NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts.