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UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general.
Peru agency says cause of dolphin deaths unsolved
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
Peru's Sea Institute said in its final report Tuesday on the mass die-off earlier this year of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises that the cause remains unknown.
UN says most Fukushima radiation doses below norms
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but most of the nation did not.
Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
Facebook stock climbs after rocky start
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
Facebook's stock is climbing higher, a reprieve for shareholders after the stock's rocky inaugural trading day Friday was followed by a two-day decline.
Japanese video game author wins Spanish prize
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
Japan's Shigeru Miyamoto, considered the father of the modern video game, has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
Regulators probe bank's role in Facebook IPO
By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press
Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about the company before the stock started trading.
Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96
By CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press
Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.
ICANN resumes bids for new Internet suffixes
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
The organization overseeing a major expansion of Internet addresses has reopened its system for letting companies and organizations submit proposals.
UK hacker hits Justin Bieber's girlfriend account
By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press
Britain's judiciary says that a 21-year-old sentenced last week for hacking into a U.S.-based Facebook account accessed the page belonging to teen actress Selena Gomez, who is the girlfriend of pop idol Justin Bieber.
Cartoon studio faces state clout, global stars
By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press
Chinese cartoonist Carol Liu Hong built her studio from scratch, doing post-production work for TV commercials and then, once she broke even, realizing her dream of creating cartoons for Chinese kids.
Facebook stock slide deepens on 3rd trading day
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press
Facebook's newly public stock is sliding further on its third trading day as investors reconsider how much the social network is worth.
Where are Facebook's friends? Stock slide deepens
By PALLAVI GOGOI and BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press
Facebook's newly public stock is sliding further on its third trading day as investors reconsider how much the social network is worth.
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI - Associated Press
Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.
Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa
By MARGIE MASON - Associated Press
More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.