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Prized mushroom collection returns to China
7:26AM CT
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
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Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism
Nov 5 2009 8:13AM CT
LONDON (AP) - Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups.
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World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
Nov 6 2009 4:25PM CT
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.
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Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage
Nov 5 2009 6:41PM CT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
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New gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain disease
Nov 5 2009 4:12PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.
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Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898
Nov 2 2009 4:48PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.
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Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro
Nov 2 2009 2:49PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report.
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82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld
Nov 6 2009 3:59PM CT
PARIS (AP) - French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with euro11 million ($7.4 million) in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said.
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