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"Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Matt Kaplan - Oct. 12 (News Report) - A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study says--making it the only known vegetarian out of some 40,000 spider species. A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study

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Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jul. 23 (News Report) - hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday

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Canada forest fire continues to rage

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 20 (News) - KELOWNA, British Columbia -- Firefighters and air tankers in southern British Columbia continue to battle a forest fire that has forced the evacuation of 11,000 residents.

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mike Ahlers - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A preliminary report on the mysterious deployment of an evacuation chute aboard a Barack Obama campaign plane last summer appears to close the book on one potentially embarrassing possibility — that Secret Service agents inadvertently tampered with the chute mechanism during preflight security checks. "An internal (Secret Service) investigation … revealed that no (Secret Service) personnel or … support personnel interfered with or altered the aircraft's … tailcone evacuation slide," a National Transportation Safety Board report says.

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More airlines embracing furry travelers - CNN.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A few weeks ago, Tony Hoard, a 57-year-old manufacturing worker in Indiana, boarded a flight on Midwest Airlines to Las Vegas, Nevada, with his Australian Shepherd. The flight attendant smiled at the two and said, "Welcome aboard." Midwest Airlines allows some of its canine customers to be seated in cabin Hoard has flown with Rory, his furry 40-pound companion, in coach more than 15 times on Midwest, the Wisconsin-based airline that boasts "The Best Care in the Air." Each time they fly, Rory wears a harness and sits strapped into a seat.

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Reports: NKorea Kim’s youngest son named successor

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jae Soon Chang - Jun. 02 (Breaking News) - SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Jong Il’s youngest son _ a 26-year-old who reportedly enjoys skiing and studied English, German and French at a Swiss boarding school _ was named North Korea’s next leader in an announcement to top ruling party, government and military officials, a South Korean lawmaker and...

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Political storm in Britain, as speaker resigns

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfrab - May. 20 (Breaking News) - LONDON — The scandal of British members of Parliament fiddling with their expenses started almost two weeks ago as a joke, but has become more serious by the day. This afternoon, it claimed its first high-profile victim as the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, resigned.

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Putin takes a chance

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Kevin O'Flynn - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - Vladimir Putin appears worried that a performance by an ABBA tribute band could be his Waterloo......Although it may sound like harmless gossip, there are serious questions about who paid for the concert and whether a prime minister should accept such largesse in a country where billions of dollars have been stolen, where the press is heavily controlled, and where it would be naive to think there would ever be much scandal over a private concert.

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globeandmail.com: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Globe and Mail - By Dean Beeby - Nov. 27 (News Report) - The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

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