A Michigan woman whose cats took a liking to a wounded robin she found in her yard said the bird had returned to the wild.Karin Caston of Otsego, who said Peeps the young robin appeared to have an injured wing when she found it chirping in her yard June 6, said she took the bird into her home and soon discovered the young bird liked to nestle in the fur of her cats, the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette r

Officials postponed declaring a winner in Egypt's disputed election on Wednesday, sending political tensions soaring as the country awaited its first new president in three decades.Adding to the confusion and uncertainty were reports about the health of Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters in the uprising that ousted him last year. At one poin

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Apple has infringed on a patent held by South Korean rival Samsung and ordered the U.S. computer giant to pay an unspecified amount of damages."The court orders that the defendant pay Samsung for the damages it suffered since August 4, 2010 as the result of an infringement on (patent) EP 269," The Hague district court said in its ruling.Samsung took Apple to c

Budgetary woes in the CIA unit that tracked Osama bin Laden prior to the deadly 2001 strikes against the U.S. led analysts to believe that catching the al-Qaida leader was unlikely, according to government records published Tuesday.Many of the newly released documents are cited in the Sept. Commission report, published in 2004. The documents, dated between 1992 and 2004 are heavily blacked out and

(AP-Yonhap News)Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, the boxers that fight fans worldwide want to see in the ring together, top the list of the 100 highest-paid athletes released by Forbes magazine on Monday.Mayweather, who ranks No. 1 for making $85 million off two fights last year, is serving a three-month jail sentence for domestic battery in Las Vegas, having failed in a bid to serve the remai

독일에서 짝짓기 도중 화석화가 된 거북이들이 발견되었다고 외신이 20일(현지시간) 보도했다..튀빙겐대학의 월터 조이스 박사가 이끄는 연구진은 메셀 화석 유적지에서 화산에서 분출된 독성물질에 의해 죽은 것으로 보이는 화석 9쌍을 발견했으며 그 중 일부는 교미 도중 화석화되었다고 한다. 이 거북은 멸종한 Allaeochelys crassesculpta 종이라고 한다.조이스 박사는 교미중인 척추동물의 화석이 발견된 것은 처음이라며 놀라움을 표했다. 메셀 유적지는 이곳에서 대량의 화석으로 유명한데 주변의 화산호에서 뿜어져 나온 독성물질로 인해 동물들이 죽임을 당한 경우가 잦았기 때문이다.조이스 박사에 따르면 이번에 발견된 거북들은 독성이 없는 수면에서 교미를 시작했으나, 교미 도중 점점 독성을 띄고 있는 층으로 가

German scientists have uncovered copulating turtle fossils, according to news reports.The turtle couples, which belonged to an extinct species known as Allaeochelys crassesculpta, are believed to have died from poisonous volcanic gas.Walter Joyce of the University of Tuebingen, who made the shocking discovery, said it was the first time that fossils of copulating vertebrates were found. The fossil

(AP-Yonhap News)Only one goal counted, and it belonged to Wayne Rooney.The England striker returned from a two-match suspension to head in the lone goal Tuesday and give his team a 1-0 win over Ukraine and a spot in the European Championship quarterfinals. The co-host Ukrainians, however, will leave the tournament knowing that things could have been different.Needing a win to advance, the Ukrainia

FIFA has imposed global bans from football on 13 players and coaches found guilty of match-fixing in South Korea and Croatia. FIFA says its disciplinary committee ordered binding verdicts to extend national suspensions.Former South Korea international Kim Dong-hyun was banned for life, and Choi Sung-kuk got a 5-year ban.  The South Korean investigation involved fixed matches in the K-League and Le

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and other leaders of the world's major economies pledged Tuesday to accelerate growth and job creation to underpin the global economic recovery troubled by the eurozone debt crisis.The leaders of the Group of 20 economies said in a joint statement that they expect eurozone members to take all necessary measures to "safeguard the integrity and stability" of the

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday walked into Ecuador's embassy in London and applied for political asylum in a sensational bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.The former computer hacker, who last week exhausted all his legal options in Britain to fight extradition, was holed up at the embassy in central London while Quito examined the request, officials said.Brita

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke in prison Tuesday, officials said, deepening the country's uncertainty just as a potentially explosive fight opened over who will succeed him, with both candidates claiming to have won last weekend's presidential election.The developments, which saw Mubarak moved out of prison to a mili

A mysterious object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea isn't a UFO, Swedish researches say, but they add they don't have a sure idea of what it is, either.The object, located on the sea floor between Sweden and Finland, is some sort of "natural, geological formation," Peter Lindberg, the leader of the Ocean Explorer team, told FoxNews.com.Lindberg and other scientists and divers spent 12 day explorin

Lonnie Chisenhall and Casey Kotchman each provided three RBI Monday in the Cleveland Indians' 10-9 interleague slugfest win over Cincinnati.Chisenhall and Kotchman each belted a two-run homer and both delivered run-scoring hits in the decisive sixth inning, when the Indians grabbed a 9-7 lead off Sam LeCure (2-2).Shin-Soo Choo added a solo shot and an RBI double for the Indians, who banged out 13

Women in India, assailing the lack of public toilets available to them, have begun a Right to Pee Campaign, a report said Thursday.The humorous slogan, coined by the Mumbai, India, media, masks the dependence of the population on public restrooms, and the imbalance of men's rooms to those available to women, The New York Times said Thursday.A government study indicated the public sanitation system

This image is not directly related to the story (Image from movie "Lord of the Rings")Serbian archaeologists say a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age necropolis was unearthed during road construction work near Vranje, 170 miles south of Belgrade.The site contains the remains of individuals burned in funeral pyres, Aleksandar Bulatovic, the coordinator of a project of archaeological research and preservatio

Spain`s Jesus Navas scores the only goal during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group C match between Croatia and Spain in Gdansk, Poland, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)Unconvincing as it was, it was still enough for Spain.The defending champions advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championship on Monday, getting an 88th-minute goal from substitute Jesus Navas in a 1-0 win over Croatia.Spain

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed Monday to resume stalled free trade talks between the two countries this year.The two leaders reached the agreement during a meeting on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Mexico's resort city of Los Cabos, sharing a need to further boost trade and investment between the two countries

A special committee of an opposition party mired by allegations of election fraud and pro-North Korea leanings announced Monday a set of reform measures the party should undertake, including a clear condemnation of North Korea's human rights situation, its nuclear weapons program and hereditary succession of power.The internal committee tasked with reforming the leftist opposition Unified Progress

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Sunday to resume stalled negotiations on a free trade agreement between their countries this year, an official said.The two leaders reached the agreement during summit talks held after Lee arrived in the Mexican resort city of Los Cabos for a summit of the Group of 20 major economies, set for Monday and Tuesday.South