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Heat brings out the cool in zoos across the nation (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - Otters sweltering in the summer sun suck on "fishsicles." For carnivores like the Amur leopard, it's "bloodsicles."

Finger on posterior triggers knife fight in Dallas (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - Police said a Dallas woman was threatened with a knife in a fight that allegedly started when a friend rubbed her bottom with a finger. A police report states 22-year-old Laquita Mattox was sitting on her friend's bed in a Dallas apartment Thursday when her friend rubbed her finger on Mattox's buttocks.

Schwarzenegger orders government worker furloughs (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes a budget that addresses a $19 billion deficit.

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out houses, the Jewish ghetto totally flattened.

Sarkozy orders illegal Roma immigrants expelled (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.

A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation's secrets.

New garbage patch discovered in Indian Ocean (Y! Green)

July 29, 2010

Y! Green - You may have heard about a Texas-sized garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean and another island of garbage found in the Atlantic. Scientists recently announced the existence of a third major collection of plastic garbage in the Indian Ocean. Plastic trash swirls around in gyres, which are powerful rotating currents in the world's major oceans. Except none of these areas are actually garbage patches.

China urges change in U.S. policy to avoid friction (Reuters)

July 29, 2010

Reuters - The United States should alter policy to take account of China's role as a major player on the world stage if it wants to avoid friction and instability, a major state newspaper said on Thursday.

No charges for NY's Paterson in aide violence case (AP)

July 29, 2010

AP - New York Gov. David Paterson will not face criminal charges for calling up a woman who later dropped domestic violence charges against a top aide, though the aide could still face prosecution, according to an investigative report issued Wednesday.

BP aims for quick well kill and weighs asset sales (Reuters)

July 29, 2010

Reuters - BP Plc may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in U.S. history as early as Monday, the company said as speculation grew over assets it might sell to cover mounting costs.