AP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue.
AP - A lost humpback whale calf that bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother will likely die within days if it doesn't find another mother to adopt it, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
AP - Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities. -- read full article
Reuters - Major U.S. airlines will see a 6
percent drop in passengers during the eight-day Labor Day
holiday period as high oil prices continue to roil the
industry, the airlines' trade organization predicted on Monday.
Reuters - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost
their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched
into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said
on Monday.
AFP - Iran said on Monday that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.
AFP - An undisclosed number of people remain unaccounted for following a dam burst at the Grand Canyon that forced the evacuation of residents and tourists, local media reported Monday.
LiveScience.com - Monsters are everywhere these days, and belief in them is as strong
as ever. What's harder to believe is why so many people buy into hazy
evidence, shady schemes and downright false reports that perpetuate
myths that often have just one ultimate truth: They put money in the
pockets of their purveyors. -- read full article
AFP - Barack Obama met Sunday with oil tycoon turned alternative energy advocate T. Boone Pickens, who funded devastating attacks on 2004 Democratic White House pick John Kerry.
AP - Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships last year, an official said Monday.
AFP - The head of Israel's space agency on Monday played down concerns over Iran's announcement it sent a rocket into space, saying the real threat came from Tehran's nuclear programme.
AFP - Tropical storm Fay pummeled western Cuba early Monday and barreled toward the Florida Keys after claiming at least 11 lives in the Dominican Republic and Haiti amid forecasts it would hit hurricane force.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama met Sunday with Texas oil baron and longtime conservative activist T. Boone Pickens to discuss strategies for developing alternative energy.
