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Bees swarm in downtown Stockholm

(123rf)Thousands of bees swarmed outside the Stockholm headquarters of a major Swedish clothing chain. Annette Rieger, who works in the H&M building, told The Local.se the swarm was outside for about 3 hours Friday afternoon. "I saw them all over the windows. They even got through the first level of glazing," she said. "My colleague was super scared because she is allergic to bees!"Johan Jarbrant,

Technology July 15, 2012

Reformist Kang Ki-kab elected new leader of embattled progressive party

The embattled Unified Progressive Party (UPP) on Sunday elected reformist interim leader Kang Ki-kab as its new chairman in a nationwide vote, hoping that it would end months of factional infighting that has thrown the minor left-wing party into chaos.Party officials said Kang, who has served as the interim leader of the UPP since late April, was elected to the top leadership over Kang Byung-gee w

Politics July 15, 2012

Autistic man survives 3-week ordeal in U.S. desert

An autistic man lived on frogs and roots as he wandered for weeks in the remote Escalante Desert of southern Utah until being rescued, emaciated but alive.William Martin LaFever, 28, told rescuers that in addition to the bits of food he scavenged, including a few frogs he caught, he drank water from the Escalante River while attempting to walk from Boulder, Utah, to Page, Arizona, a distance of ap

People July 15, 2012

Neb. man jailed for bomb threat on job application

A central Nebraska man landed in jail for writing a bomb threat on the back of a restaurant job application.The Kearney Hub reports that the Legacy 272 Lounge employee who reviewed 38-year-old Jason Dornhoff's application last Thursday called police when he read the threat that closed with: "If you be quiet and help me, you won't die."Police arrested Dornhoff, of Heartwell, Neb., at gunpoint and s

World News July 12, 2012

Police arrest drunken nude walkers

Police in South Carolina said they arrested a pair of drunken men who were spotted walking around a city's downtown "completely in the nude."Charleston police said an officer spotted Christoph Robin Egan, 19, and Andrew Stephen Dunford, 21, both of Montclair, N.J., walking "completely in the nude" around 2 a.m. Monday on Logan Street, the Post and Courier, Charleston, reported Wednesday.The office

World News July 12, 2012

‘Sound' of Higgs boson created

(123rf)"Sonified" data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland makes it possible to "hear" the newly discovered Higgs boson, researchers say.The result, they said, is a melody that resembles the syncopated rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance popular in Spain in the early 19th century."As soon as the [Higgs discovery] announcement was made, we begun working on the sonificatio

Technology July 12, 2012

U.S. trade deficit grows after FTA with Korea

The U.S. deficit in trade with South Korea has continued to jump since their free trade agreement went into effect in March, according to U.S. government data released Wednesday.The U.S. imported $5.4 billion in goods from South Korea in May, a 5.2-percent increase from the same period last year, the Commerce Department said.Exports to South Korea totaled $3.4 billion, down 6.4 percent from the pr

July 12, 2012

South Korea hints at scrapping whaling plan

South Korea said Wednesday it may scrap its fiercely criticized plan to resume "scientific" whaling if experts come up with non-lethal means to study the mammals in its waters."We may not conduct whaling for scientific research if there is another way to achieve the goal," Kang Joon-Suk, a senior official of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told reporters.South Korea unve

Technology July 11, 2012

U.K. police: Heir's wife found dead in London

(MCT)One of Britain's richest women, American-born Eva Rausing, was found dead in her west London home and a man was arrested in connection with the case, British police said Tuesday, adding that an autopsy had failed to uncover a formal cause of death. Rausing, 48, was the wife of Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the TetraPak fortune his father built by creating a successful manufacturer of lamin

World News July 11, 2012

U.K. police: Heir's wife found dead in London

Pets boost infant immunity to infections

(123rf)Infants, who had contact with dogs at home had fewer respiratory tract symptoms or infections than children with no dog contacts, researchers in Finland found.Lead author Dr. Eija Bergroth, a pediatrician who worked at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland at the time of the study, and colleagues at Kuopio University Hospital, the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Kuopio, Finland

Technology July 11, 2012

Pets boost infant immunity to infections

Conn. man donates 18 gallons of blood

A Connecticut man who has been donating blood for 34 years said he has donated a total of 18 gallons in 144 separate donations.Alan Gittleman of South Windsor, first donated blood to the American Red Cross in 1978 as part of the Bridgeport Jewish Community Center's drive in the name of his father-in-law, who had recently undergone surgery.He said he has donated about six times per year since his o

Technology July 11, 2012

Sitting less may extend American lives: study

(123rf)American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task.Reducing television viewing to under two hours a day could similarly add1.4 years, the US team said in a paper in the online journal BMJ Open.A recent study found that US adults spend about 7.7 hours per day engaged in "s

Technology July 10, 2012

Sitting less may extend American lives: study

Armstrong suit to block doping charges dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed Lance Armstrong's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, but says the cyclist can refile it within 20 days.The seven-time Tour de France champion sued USADA on Monday in an attempt to prevent it from moving forward with charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career.U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled just hours later. He critici

More Sports July 10, 2012

Sex crimes against disabled soar 60 pct in 2 yrs

Sex crimes reported against disabled people have soared about 60 percent over the past two years, a ruling party lawmaker said Tuesday.The number of reported sexual offenses against the disabled totaled 462 in 2011, up from 288 in 2009 and 294 in 2010, according to the data Rep. Cho Hae-jin of the Saenuri Party presented based upon National Police Agency statistics.The number of such crimes agains

Social Affairs July 10, 2012

Sounds of Northern Lights confirmed

(123rf)Sounds associated with auroras, or northern lights, described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers, have been confirmed by Finnish researchers.Scientists at Aalto University using microphones determined the crackles or muffled bangs are formed about 70 meters above ground level."Our research proved that, during the occurrence of the northern lights, people can hear natural auroral sound

Technology July 10, 2012

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