ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a “sorry, no refunds.”…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission….
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. “The lavishly ornamented four-wheel chariot dates back to the end of the second century A.D.,” Veselin Ignatov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site, near the southeastern village of Karanovo….
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Scientists say they hope to find remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before falling to earth in western Canada….
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change….
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom….
TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Dolphins have a kick that would make Michael Phelps jealous - 212 pounds worth….
HOBART, Australia (AP) — A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters - a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said Monday….
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A powerful undersea earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast on Monday caused automated monitoring systems to falsely indicate small temblors in Idaho and California, scientists reported….
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates hope Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel really do have million-dollar arms. The two 20-year-old pitchers, neither of whom had picked up a baseball until earlier this year, signed free-agent contracts Monday with the Pirates. They are believed to be the first athletes from India to sign professional baseball contracts outside their country….
