AFP - The government admitted on Friday that it is unable to stop energy companies passing on the cost of its fuel assistance package to customers.

Reuters - Thanks to a big stroke of luck 200 million years ago, dinosaurs beat out a fearsome group of creatures competing for the right to rule the Earth, scientists said on Thursday.

AP - Zoologists have captured the first photos of the okapi in the wild, saying Thursday they offered evidence that the animal once mistaken for a unicorn has managed to survive war and poaching in a park in a lawless swath of Congo.

AP - Hurricane Ike's gargantuan size — not its strength — will likely push an extra large storm surge inland in a region already prone to it, experts said Thursday.

AFP - The South African government Thursday approved trials on genetically-modified sorghum in a bid to improve nutrition in Africa, an official statement said.

Reuters - At least three people were killed as violent anti-government protests mounted in Bolivia on Thursday, creating havoc in its natural gas industry and increasing tensions with the United States.

AFP - NASA has taken a giant leap in the next stage of manned space flight with Wednesday's successful completion of a final step in the design process for the Ares I rocket, on course to launch in 2015, and put Americans back on the moon by 2020.