Koalas dying
The koala, Australia’s star symbol, is dying of stress. As people move in, koalas are finding themselves with fewer trees, researchers say. The stress is bringing out a latent disease that infects 50 percent to 90 percent of the animals.
Polanski’s fight
Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed a motion in a Zurich court Tuesday asking that the Oscar-winning director be released from Swiss custody — the first step in his legal battle to avoid extradition to the U.S. for a 1977 statutory rape case.
Charge dismissed
A military judge in Camp Pendleton, Calif., has dismissed a murder charge against a Marine accused of killing an unarmed detainee in Iraq. Sgt. Jermaine Nelson agreed to plead guilty to dereliction of duty, and could have faced life in prison.
DJ AM death details
DJ AM died accidentally from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and cocaine, the medical examiner’s office in New York ruled Tuesday.
Execution planned
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine said Tuesday he can’t think of any reason he would stop the Nov. 10 execution of Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad.
Deadly tsunami
Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities.
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