AP - With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.
U.S. News & World Report - With rounds to fight running out, the self-described Rocky Balboa of politics will soon be forced to assess the damage sustained by the most expensive primary bout in history. Sen. Hillary Clinton doled out $6.4 million of her own money to her campaign since April, her campaign told reporters this week. That brings her total cash outlay to more than $11 million since January. And she's not ruling out spending more as she plans to compete in the six remaining contests. If she plans to knock out heavyweight fundraising champ, Sen. Barack Obama, she may have no other choice.
Reuters - An attendant at a Canadian restaurant
who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16
cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back on
Thursday after the case received wide media attention.
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AFP - Giantkiller Dinara Safina took her second major scalp in two days as she sent former world number one Serena Williams out of the German Open just 24 hours after dispatching top seed Justine Henin.
AP - Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut exports from the OPEC member. Gas prices, meanwhile, rose above an average $3.67 a gallon at the pump, following oil's recent path higher.
Reuters - Lebanon's governing coalition said on
Friday Hezbollah's takeover of west Beirut was an "armed coup"
aimed at bringing Syria back into the country and serving
Iran's interests.
AP - The movement of Democratic superdelegates to presidential hopeful Barack Obama gained steam Friday with four new endorsements, including a union president and a congressman who switched his backing from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
AP - Myanmar's military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.
