Retraining "bumsters" to shake sex tourism tag
2006-05-19 09:26:13
The young Gambian man in the yellow string vest calls out to a European woman walking along a wide golden beach shrouded in a fine sea mist.
Friend left as deposit at gas station
2006-05-19 09:06:58
A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.
Raccoon survives massive electric shock
2006-05-18 17:21:40
A raccoon suffered an 11,000 volt electric shock when it scampered up a pylon in Cyprus but escaped with burns.
Soldier tells about life in war-torn Iraq
2006-05-18 15:48:21
A local family got an early Mother's Day present when their son, Pvt. 1st Class Chris Pittman, returned home for a two-week vacation following a yearlong stint in Iraq.
Inside the business of egg donation
2006-05-18 14:29:04
As college students wrap up the school year, there's a new kind of recruitment under way on campuses. Fertility clinics are offering young women a hefty check for their eggs. Reportedly, it's turning egg donations into a campus industry.
Primary school accepts boy as girl
2006-05-18 14:08:26
A Japanese primary school is allowing a 7-year-old boy with a gender identity disorder to take part in school life as a girl, an unprecedented move in this conservative nation, local media said on Thursday.
Last male purebred rabbit species dies
2006-05-18 11:03:25
The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction.
New Study: Tiny mouse deserves protection
2006-05-18 10:20:13
A new study reinforces a tiny rodent's reputation as the mouse that roared, and that could block millions of dollars in development in Wyoming and Colorado if it hangs on to its endangered status.
Vitamins helpful or harmful? Study says maybe both
2006-05-18 09:49:17
Over half of U.S. adults use multivitamins. Yet there's little evidence that most of the pills do any good - and concern that some people may even get a risky vitamin overload, study said Wednesday.
Ignoring reviews, big crowds await "Da Vinci Code"
2006-05-18 09:18:54
First reviews for "The Da Vinci Code" may be mostly scathing, but box office experts say they expect the Mona Lisa to keep smiling all the way to the bank this weekend.
Chimps, humans mated in messy affair - DNA study
2006-05-18 06:13:33
NEW YORK - One of the most detailed comparisons yet of human and chimp DNA shows that the split between the two species was a long, messy affair that may even have featured an unusual evolutionary version of breakup sex.
BBC names "wrong Guy" in interview mix-up
2006-05-17 11:43:29
The BBC has revealed that a bewildered man it interviewed live on TV in the mistaken belief he was the editor of a technology website was, quite literally, "the wrong Guy".