AFP - US professor Randy Pausch, who shot to global fame because of the inspirational "Last Lecture" he delivered just weeks after learning he had terminal cancer, died Friday, the university where he taught said.
Reuters - The dramatic collapse of energy trader
SemGroup LP shocked the privately held firm's backers who until
last week had little idea of the extent of the oil trading
losses that sank it, sources said this week.
AFP - Cleanup efforts were underway Friday after a barge collided with a tanker in the Mississippi River, spilling around 419,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of fuel oil, the US Coast Guard said.
AP - New Castle Police say a woman chased down a burglar she caught carrying her property out of her house, and got her stuff back. It happened Tuesday morning in a home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Manor Park.
AP - The State Department insisted Friday it can handle the growing demand for passports, despite congressional investigators' findings that the agency has not overhauled the system to avoid repeating last summer's backlog fiasco.
Reuters - A 2007 Utah coal mine collapse that
killed six miners and three rescuers was triggered by a faulty
mine design, federal investigators said on Thursday, rejecting
the owner's claim that it was caused by an earthquake.
AP - After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, deputies in North Carolina let their fingers do the chasing to catch a second suspect.
Reuters - Personal data collected on military,
civilian and contractor employees seeking federal security
clearances between 1997 and 2005 could be at risk due to
inaccurate record-keeping by the Pentagon agency that did the
investigations, an audit showed on Thursday.
AFP - The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said Thursday.
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AFP - Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.
AP - The cries of a baby led rescuers to him in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said Friday.
AFP - A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Since 1996, the life expectancy
of HIV patients in developed countries taking antiviral therapy has
increased more than 13 years, and deaths have dropped by almost 40
percent, researchers report.
Reuters - Pope Benedict told Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday that minority
Christians in Iraq needed more protection but the Iraqi leader
assured him that Christians were not being persecuted.
AP - An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.
AP - The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday.
USATODAY.com - For the past quarter-century, U.S. energy policy has been generally non-existent. To the extent there has been one, it has been to keep gasoline cheap. But one element stands out as a dramatic exception to this minimalist approach. Through a series of generous tax subsidies and production mandates, the use of corn-based ethanol has soared.