AP - A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
AP - Just a fraction of the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch remain in foster care after parents traveled this sprawling state to reunite their families.
AP - With astronauts hustling inside and out, the international space station got its biggest live-in addition yet, a Japanese lab stretching 37 feet that opens for business Wednesday.
AP - An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
AP - Israel's fears that Iran could obtain nuclear weapons and the Israeli government's attempts to negotiate peace with the Palestinians and Syria are top agenda items when Israel's beleaguered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, meets President Bush.
AP - Chinese police Wednesday blocked access to a school that collapsed in last month's massive earthquake, a day after breaking up a protest by parents of students who died in the disaster.
AFP - Pakistani officials said Tuesday an attack on the Danish embassy was likely a one-off linked to cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and will not impact the new government's talks with the Taliban.
AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for a huge rise in food production Tuesday as world leaders opened a summit on the food price crisis that threatens hunger, poverty and conflict worldwide.
Reuters - A United Nations summit on the global food
crisis called on Tuesday for trade barriers to be reduced and
food export bans scrapped to help stop the spread of hunger
that threatens nearly one billion people.
Reuters - International aid groups pressed Myanmar
on Tuesday to stop closing cyclone relief camps as southeast
Asian experts kicked off a mission to pin down the scale of the
devastation a month after the storm.
Reuters - U.S. General David McKiernan took command
of around 50,000 troops in NATO's International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan on Tuesday, pledging
that anyone who stood in the way of security would be dealt
with.
Reuters - Top Chinese officials considered on
Tuesday a plan to rebuild earthquake-ravaged parts of the
country's southwest while protests by grieving parents and
dangerous quake lakes cast a shadow over relief efforts.
Reuters - Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of
Massachusetts is "recuperating well" from brain surgery and
should be released within a week from Duke University Medical
Center, his office said on Tuesday.
