Need to know: The United States offered "any kind of assistance" to help Libya's rebel forces overthrow the regime of defiant leader Muammar Gaddafi, as anti-government forces chanting, "Free, free Libya," massed in a city outside Tripoli ready for an expected offensive. Protesters set a supermarket ablaze and gathered in several sites in a seaside town in Oman in a third consecutive day of unrest that has included deadly clashes in the strategic Gulf nation.  |
Want to know: HIV patients in the South African township of Umlazi live in fear of being robbed of their live-saving anti-retroviral drugs. They have become attractive targets for gangs who steal their pills, which are then combined with detergent powder and rat poison to make "whoonga" - a highly toxic and addictive street drug. |
Dull but important: Can a group of scientists in California end the war on climate change? The Berkeley Earth project say they are about to reveal the definitive truth about global warming. |
Just because: An Israeli scholar believes he has identified a shade of blue that has been a puzzle for centuries. Traditional interpretations have characterized tekhelet as a pure blue. Not so, according to an Israeli scholar: tekhelet appears to have been closer to a bluish purple. Tekhelet is produced from the secretion of the sea snail. |
Wacky: Spain has killed the croissant. That's the bleak assessment of a food writer, who accused the country's bakers of creating stale pastries with no crunch and covering their product with an offensive sugary glaze. He then made an unfavorable comparison to French croissants. Little did he suspect that his forthright views would spark an intense debate about the state of the country's baking. (Read about the classic French method and watch a Paris baker create his daily batch of croissants.) |
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