
Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall
As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had ...
Bird flu found at German farm; ducks slaughtered
About 14,000 ducks at a German farm are being slaughtered following a bird flu outbreak. A federal laboratory confirmed Friday the H5N1 virus was ...

Skyfall: Meteorites strike Earth every few months
A meteor exploded in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, causing a shockwave that blew out countless windows and injured more than a ...

Asteroid buzzes, misses Earth _ unlike meteor
An asteroid hurtled through Earth's backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles (27,599 kilometers) and making the closest known flyby ...

Meteor explodes over Russia, 1,100 injured
With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, ...
Facebook wins German court fight on fake names ban
Facebook has won a court battle against a German privacy watchdog that challenged the social networking site's policy requiring users to register with ...
Amazon to probe German worker abuse claims
Online retailer Amazon said Thursday it will investigate reports that temporary staff at its logistics centers in Germany were subjected to a climate ...

Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction
What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social ...
UK police arrest 6 people in phone hacking probe
British police investigating computer hacking and privacy offenses by the media on Wednesday arrested six people alleged to be involved in ...
Historians, scientists, artist win Israeli prize
American intellectual Leon Wieseltier, French philosopher Michel Serres and British historian Sir Geoffrey Lloyd are among the winners of this year's ...
Germany: no prospect of shale gas fracking soon
Germany's environment minister says he doesn't expect the extraction of natural gas by "fracking" will start any time soon in Europe's biggest economy
EU pushes plans for safer, more secure Internet
EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer — more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use.
Police officer charged in UK bribery probe
British prosecutors are charging a former police officer with leaking information to a tabloid newspaper. The Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday ...

UK's space age Antarctic base can slide across ice
British researchers have unveiled a futuristic Antarctic research base that can move, sliding across the frozen surface to beat the shifting ice and ...

EU parliament pushes fish reform in landmark vote
The European Union parliament on Wednesday pushed for a drastic reform of fishing policy in a landmark vote seeking to end decades of overfishing that ...

Iceland investigating mass herring deaths
Researchers in Iceland are blaming low oxygen levels in a shallow fjord for the deaths of tens of thousands of tons of herring. Masses of dead herring ...
New BlackBerry to be released in US in mid-March
The chief executive of Research In Motion says he's disappointed the new BlackBerry won't be released in the United States until mid-March, but he ...

Study suggests Neanderthals died out earlier
Theories about when the last Neanderthals walked the Earth may have to be revised, according to a study that suggests they became extinct in their ...

British detective jailed in phone-hacking scandal
A senior British counterterrorism detective was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the ...
Ericsson posts Q4 loss, but sales up
Wireless equipment maker Ericsson posted a 6.46 billion kronor ($1.02 billion) loss in the fourth quarter due to a massive one-time charge, but said ...
Correction: Europe-Science Bonanza story
In a story Jan. 28 about a European Union science award, The Associated Press reported erroneously that €1 billion euros was equivalent to $1.

Cyprus jobless turn to illegal songbird trapping
It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of ...

Dutch court rejects most of Shell spill case
A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell should be held responsible for a pipeline leak poisoning ...

Judge OKs $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a U.S

Genetics may explain severe flu in Chinese people
A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help ...