Where's summer in Europe?

Snowball fights in July. Mulled wine instead of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and gone, fall approaches
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Anger of a quiet German village where neo-Nazis plan an SS-style baby farm

The dubious project has been launched by Jürgen Rieger, a wealthy 57-year-old Hamburg lawyer and specialist in defending members of the German far right.
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Sailing Toward a Storm in China: U.S. Maneuvers Could Spark a War

This will be the first time in U.S. naval history that seven of our 12 carrier strike groups deploy in one place at the same time. It will look like the peacetime equivalent of the Normandy landings and may well end in a disaster.

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Monster raindrops delight experts

"They are the biggest raindrops I have seen in 30 years of flying," Professor Peter Hobbs
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Fractal patterns of early life revealed

The finds show that the organisms were assembled in fractal patterns from frond-like building blocks. They were unable to move and had no reproductive organs, perhaps reproducing by dropping off new fronds.

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Ammonia on Mars could mean life

Ammonia may have been found in Mars' atmosphere which some scientists say could indicate life on the Red Planet.
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Melting ice: the threat to London's future

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned.
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Fossil research challenges early animal life theory

A Swedish scientist says more comprehensive research has strengthened the argument that fossils found in the Stirling Range near Albany in southern Western Australia show complex animal life existed on earth more than 1.5 billion years ago.

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Hawking cracks black hole paradox

Stephen has changed his view and now believes that black holes do not destroy information.
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Senate rejects gay marriage ban

An attempt to change the US constitution to ban gay marriage has been rejected by the Senate.
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CORRECTED: U.S. Terror Warnings Lack Specifics-Report

"They didn't say what was new and they didn't suggest any additional measures to be taken other than please be a little bit more vigilant and please go about your shopping. I think that that really attacks the credibility of the government warning system."
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Crash Planning: Mission to Deflect an Asteroid

A mission to smash into a space rock to deflect it and study its structure has been given priority over five other potential asteroid projects by the European Space Agency.

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Millions homeless in India after worst floods for a decade

More than two million people have been forced to abandon their homes in north-east India amid the worst floods for more than a decade in south Asia.

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Is Bush the Antichrist?

the Antichrist was someone who would come in the name of Christ but be the enemy of Christ. Using that definition, let us examine the proposition that George W. Bush could be the Antichrist.
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Troops offer to save Filipino hostage

The Philippines pledged today to withdraw its tiny peacekeeping force from Iraq as soon possible, in a race against the clock to save a civilian hostage from beheading by militants.

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Bush plan drops logging ban for national forests

Philip Clapp, president of National Environmental Trust, called the proposal "the biggest single giveaway to the timber industry in the history of the national forests."
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Cheney's F-Word Quote Lives on T-Shirts and Thongs

Within weeks of Cheney's angry suggestion to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy to "go f--- yourself" on June 22, an online cottage industry quoting the vice president has sprung up at Cafepress.com, a Web site offering customized merchandise.

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Snowplows dig out streets buried in hail

EDMONTON -- It was a sight to behold, snowplows on the street in the middle of July.

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Europe plagued by snow and heatwaves, Romanian death toll climbs

Extreme temperatures, which have killed at least 22 people in Romania in the space of a week, continued to plague Europe, with Greece sweltering in a heatwave and an open-air performance of Verdi's "Traviata" canceled in Italy.
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Bush Cartel Talks of Steps to Potentially Cancel ("Postpone") the Presidential Election

In a short Newsweek brief, in Monday's (July 19) edition, by the infamous Michael Isikoff, it is revealed that Tommy Ridge is exploring what would be needed to be done to postpone the fall presidential election, if there were to be a terrorist attack:
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