AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first-ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon.
Reuters - The cost of specialty biotech drugs increased 8.7 percent last year in the United States, three times the rate of inflation, according to AARP, a Washington-based group representing the elderly. -- read full article
Reuters - The House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday to extend billions of dollars in tax credits for renewable energy but the bill faces an uncertain future with opposition in the Senate.
AFP - The European Union wants to become a major player in space projects, EU ministers agreed Friday, amid concerns that member states and industry are unwilling to provide the astronomical costs involved.
Reuters - Tropical Storm Kyle swirled over the Atlantic Ocean on Friday and threatened to strengthen into a hurricane by Saturday night as it bore down on the northeast U.S. coast, U.S. forecasters said. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Scientists have found a new huge and well-preserved fossil of a goose and duck relative that swam around what is now England 50 million years ago flashing sharp, toothy smiles. -- read full article
AP - China's three-man spacecraft shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 213 miles above Earth on Friday in preparation for the country's first attempt at a spacewalk.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that
they have sidestepped a major technical hurdle in the generation of
pluripotent stem cells from adult cells.
AP - Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
AP - A strong low-pressure system bringing strong winds that pushed inland for miles, waterfront flooding and high surf promised to dominate the weather along the mid-Atlantic coast into the weekend.
LiveScience.com - Men might strut their stuff on Wall Street and on Capitol Hill, but across America women wield the power on the home front. -- read full article
AP - A traveler walking along the eastern bank of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec can stand on the oldest bedrock known on Earth. This ancient section of the planet's crust may be as much as 4.28 billion years old, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
AP - The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.
AP - Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.
