Digital TV delayed
After weeks of debate, Congress is giving consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting.
Warning: Crocodiles
As if torrents washing through homes and sweeping away furniture wasn’t scary enough. Authorities in storm-battered northeastern Australia warned residents Wednesday to beware of crocodiles roaming the floodwaters covering large parts of Queensland.
Quake human error?
Pressure from a dam, its reservoir’s heavy waters weighing on geologic fault lines, may have helped trigger China’s devastating earthquake last May, some scientists say, in a finding that suggests human activity played a role in the disaster.
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83 years
The teenage girl disappeared in 1926. But a deathbed confession supposedly made decades ago has led detectives in London to open what might be one of Britain’s oldest-ever cold case reviews.
