Rarity on film

Rare Sumatran rhino filmed for first time (AFP)

AFP - One of the world's most endangered animals, the Sumatran rhinoceros, has been filmed in the wild for the first time in a coup that could help save it from extinction, wildlife campaigners said Tuesday.

Another suicide bombing

Iraq suicide bomber kills nine US soldiers (AFP)

AFP - A suicide car bomber struck a US military outpost north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 others, in the deadliest attack on American ground forces in Iraq in 16 months.

Islamic view of US goal

Muslims believe U.S. goal to weaken Islam: poll

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a poll released on Tuesday showed.

Iraqi students show VT support

Iraq students show Virginia Tech support (AP)

AP - Students in Baghdad, where universities have been hard-hit by violence, said they were saddened by last week's massacre at Virginia Tech and hung up a banner to express their solidarity with "our brothers in humanity and in pursuing knowledge."

Hamas fires rockets and mortal shells to Israel

Hamas: Truce with Israel at end (AP)

AP - Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on its independence day Tuesday, and said they considered it the end of a five-month truce with Israel.

25k for living to a hundred

Man beats bookmakers by becoming 100 (Reuters)

Reuters - A man celebrated his 100th birthday with25,000 pounds in winnings on Tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a wager that he would live for a century.

Chinese pirates did it again

Chinese pirates beat Spider-Man to the punch (Reuters)

Reuters - China's infamous movie pirates havedone it again -- "Spider-Man 3" is already being sold onBeijing's streets almost two weeks ahead of its U.S. premier.

China asserts itself vs US

China says U.S. piracy case will harm trade ties (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will "badly damage" cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.

Russia to sell more oil to Asia

Russia laying infrastructure to sell more oil to Asia--envoy

MANILA, Philippines -- Russia is laying the infrastructure to become a major oil supplier to Asian countries, including an ambitious pipeline being built from Siberia to the Pacific coast, a Russian diplomat said Tuesday.

Two oldies meet

Two of world's oldest women meet in Ind. (AP)

AP - Two of the oldest people in the United States met Saturday. A relative drove 113-year-old Bertha Fry of Muncie to a Shelbyville nursing home to visit Edna Parker, who celebrated her 114th birthday Friday.

Most Beautiful Bulldog

Riggs named most 'Beautiful Bulldog' (AP)

AP - Riggs hardly looks or acts like a beauty king. A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.

Don't hire fat employees

Study: Fat workers cost employers more (AP)

AP - Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers' compensation claims as their fit co-workers.

***Oops.  Goota lose those pounds

Google is Godder

Google tops new list of world's most valuable brands (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc. has knocked Microsoft Corp. from its perch as the world's top-ranked brand, according to findings released on Monday.

Beware Supes

Scientists unearth Superman's "kryptonite" (Reuters)

Reuters - Kryptonite, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films.

It seems that everybody wants to kill everybody...

Man kills Houston complex manager, self (AP)

AP - A man facing eviction from a luxury apartment complex shot and killed the manager and then himself after writing an e-mail to friends saying he had died, police said. At least two other people were injured.

The Wiki as News Medium

Wikipedia As A News Medium

Imagine a newspaper with over 2,000 writers, researchers and copy editors, yet no supervisors or managers. No deadlines; no meetings; no chain of command. That seemingly chaotic nonstructure isn't recognizable of the hierarchical editorial control of old media, yet that's exactly how Wikipeida, an essential source for the VA Tech shootings, works.

I agree. Honor your troops who are dying in a forsaken country

Soldier: Honor Troops Like Va. Tech Dead

An Army sergeant complained in a rare opinion article that the U.S. flag flew at half-staff last week at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan for those killed at Virginia Tech but the same honor is not given to fallen U.S. troops here and in Iraq.

Bush in a state of denial

Reid: Bush in denial over war in Iraq (AP)

AP - With a veto fight looming, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that President Bush is in a state of denial over Iraq, "and the new Congress will show him the way" to a change in war policy.

***Yeah.  Show him the blatant truth:  No one wants US in Iraq.  Not even the Iraqis.  Go, dems!

New Nigerian leader

Yar'Adua named new Nigeria leader

Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of Nigeria's controversial presidential poll.

Iran will publish British stories

We can publish your stories, Iran tells British sailors (AFP)

AFP - Iran is ready to "support" the 15 British sailors it captured to publish their stories after London reversed a decision allowing them to receive payments for their accounts, a top presidential advisor said.

***Are they kidding? I don't really know Iranian humor.