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  1. Galactic clash sheds light on dark matter (AFP)

    2. This handout Hubble Space Telescope capture released in July 2008 by NASA and showing six spectacular galaxy clusters, acting as gravitational lenses, have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Space telescopes have captured images of a mammoth collision between two galaxy clusters that have shed some light into the universe's mysterious dark matter, NASA said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Space telescopes have captured images of a mammoth collision between two galaxy clusters that have shed some light into the universe's mysterious dark matter, NASA said.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 5:08 pm

  2. Thai protesters defy court order to leave compound (AP)

    3. Anti-government protesters guard a chained shut gate Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, inside Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-government protesters Thursday defied a court order to end their occupation of the Thai prime minister's office compound in Bangkok, saying they had a right to remain and would stay until the country's leaders resign. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of demonstrators — some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks — defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister's office compound on Thursday, vowing to remain until the country's leaders resign.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 3:41 pm

  3. Russia long-range missile test a success (Reuters)

    4. A Topol-M missile launcher drives in the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow May 9, 2008. (Grigory Dukor/Reuters)Reuters - Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 1:53 pm

  4. Death for man who kidnapped, murdered Idaho boy (AP)

    5. Steve Groene, father of victims Dylan and Shasta Groene, leaves the Federal Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, after a jury delivered a verdict of death on all three counts in the sentencing phase of the Joseph Edward Duncan III trial at the Federal Courthouse in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008. Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges involving the kidnappings and the murder of Dylan. (AP Photo/Joe Jaszewski)AP - In the end, killer pedophile Joseph Edward Duncan III couldn't — or wouldn't — offer a reason why he should live.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 11:26 am

  5. Cells change identity in promising breakthrough (AP)

    6. Graphic explains how scientists were able to change a pancreas cell into an insulin-producing cell;AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 11:20 am

  6. New tropical depression forms over Atlantic (Reuters)

    7. A graphic showing the probable path of tropical depression eight, released by the National Hurricane Center on August 28, 2008. (National Hurricane Center/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 10:16 am

  7. A raft made of junk crosses Pacific in 3 months (AP)

    8. Marcus Eriksen steps onto the pier in Honolulu on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, after he and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal completed a three-month, 2,600-mile voyage from Long Beach, Ca., in a makeshift raft. The raft called JUNK was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 fuselage. (AP Photo by staffer Britt Yap)AP - Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 10:15 am

  8. Bush steps up fight over congressional authority (AP)

    9. U.S. President George W. Bush waves as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to Washington August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES)AP - The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and Congress.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 5:53 am

  9. Idaho jury sentences serial child killer to death (Reuters)

    10. Joseph Duncan III is photographed on July 2, 2005 in this booking photo after being arrested in connection with the disappearance and kidnapping of eight-year-old Shasta Kay Groene, who has been missing with her brother Dylan James Groene since her family was murdered six weeks ago. A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy. (Kootenai County Sheriff's Department/Reuters)Reuters - A federal jury in Idaho sentenced Joseph Duncan on Wednesday to death for shooting to death a 9-year-old boy in front of his younger sister after kidnapping and sexually abusing the boy.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 4:29 am

  10. AIDS in New York spreads 3 times faster than rest of US: report (AFP)

    11. An AIDS awareness chart is displayed at the Aids Center of Queens County needle exchange outreach center in New York November 28, 2006. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/FilesAFP - The AIDS virus spreads in New York City three times faster than in the rest of the United States, the city's health department said Wednesday in a report on the deadly disease.


    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 4:20 am

  11. Judges consider whether FBI violated free speech (Reuters)
    12. Reuters - A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret.

    Posted on 28 August 2008 | 12:12 am

  12. Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter (Reuters)

    13. MACSJ0025.4-1222 in an undated Hubble and Chandra composite image of the galaxy cluster. Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter. (NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 11:44 pm

  13. Police: Disabled Palestinian siblings hidden away (AP)

    14. Palestinian Basam Musalmeh, 38, stands behind a locked metal door leading to the room where he was locked up since he was a child, during a police raid in the West Bank village of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Police discovered a mentally disabled brother and sister in the rooms they were stashed away in for some forty years, during a raid in their southern West Bank town overnight Tuesday. The case has dramatically highlighted the shame thrown upon families who have children with disabilities in Palestinian society, made worse because of poor services and the practice of first-cousin marriages in Palestinian communities. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 11:06 pm

  14. HIV spreads in NY at three times the U.S. average (Reuters)

    15. The skyline of Manhattan is seen from Brooklyn in a file photo. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)Reuters - New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 10:41 pm

  15. Consumers picked to test hydrogen car prototypes (AP)

    16. Thomas Albert, of Alexandria, Va., drives his Chevrolet Equinox Electric Fuel Cell Vehicle at a Shell Hydrogen Fueling station in Washington on Wednesday June 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Tom Albert drove his loaner Chevrolet Equinox like any other car.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 10:23 pm

  16. Judge fears secret hearings over Guantanamo Bay (AP)

    17. The sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base. Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said Wednesday that he fears the public — and the detainees themselves — will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 10:06 pm

  17. Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug (AP)
    18. AP - What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000?

    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 9:49 pm

  18. Mental skills fade earlier than thought: study (Reuters)
    19. Reuters - The rapid deterioration of our mental abilities as we age begins far earlier than scientists had suspected, Swedish researchers said on Wednesday.

    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 9:04 pm

  19. Growing new ear hairs that can boost hearing: study (AFP)

    20. A woman, seen in 1999, puts in a hearing aid. Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals, according to a study released Wednesday.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals, according to a study released Wednesday.


    Posted on 27 August 2008 | 8:26 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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