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Britain could force owners to microchip their dogs
British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:01:11 -0500

China tries microblogging top political event
China is experimenting with the use of microblogging to help cover a major political event involving the National People's Congress.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:14:53 -0500

Centuries-old shipwrecks discovered in Baltic Sea
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks -- some of them unusually well-preserved -- have been found in the Baltic sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany, Swedish experts said Tuesday.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:24:17 -0500

NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
NASA's space shuttle manager says it wouldn't be hard to add more shuttle flights. The real question is money. Program manager John Shannon says it costs $200 million a month to keep the fleet flying.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:32 -0500

German woman loses battle against atom-smasher
A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:46:58 -0500

Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs
Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week. This inaugurates what all TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:48:33 -0500

U.S.-born panda freed from quarantine in China
After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:13 -0500

GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:29:08 -0500

Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:55:47 -0500

2 of oldest people in U.S. die: in N.H. 114, Mich. 113
Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. On the same day, Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years old, 342 days, also died.

-- Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:21:08 -0500