AP – Computer data from a Toyota Prius that crashed in suburban New York City show that at the time of the accident the throttle was open and the driver was not applying the brakes, U.S. safety officials said Thursday.
LiveScience.com – A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China, turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur – the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile predator that preyed on its own kind.
AP – A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped get her record deal.
AP – Apple Inc. says board member and former auto industry executive Jerome York has died.
AFP – The number of Siberian tigers in eastern Russia fell by 15 percent in 2009, a WWF official said on Thursday at an international conference devoted to the endangered animal’s plight.
AP – Astronauts from the United States and Russia landed safely in northern Kazakhstan’s chilly steppes on Thursday after spending almost six months on the International Space Station.
Time.com – Elections are critical for Haiti’s future, but the question is whether the nightmarish conditions on the ground post-earthquake can realistically accommodate them
AP – A resort hotel on one of Dubai’s manmade islands said Thursday it has freed a whale shark whose captivity had been criticized by environmentalists.
SPACE.com – NASA’s sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been used to locate vintage space hardware lobbed to the moon in the 1970s by the former Soviet Union.
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