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AFP - Indonesia launched two tsunami alert buoys with US help Wednesday to boost an early warning system for the country worst hit by the 2004 killer wave, the US embassy said.

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AP - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.

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AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stood firm Wednesday against Japan’s whaling, saying he would consider legal action, but shrugged off charges that he had ignored relations with the longtime ally.

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LiveScience.com - Here’s mud in your eye: Pigs raised without antibiotics in an effort
to placate consumer fears over those chemicals carry more bacteria and
parasites, which of course consumers fear in the wake of the tomato
scare and beef, chicken and spinach contaminations of days gone by.

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AP - Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world’s oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship. But outside experts expressed caution about the claim.

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AP - Discovery’s astronauts inspected their ship’s wings and nose Wednesday for any signs of damage after bidding “sayonara” to the international space station and heading for home.

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Reuters - After days of struggling with
sticky Martian dirt, the Phoenix Mars Lander has unexpectedly
succeeded in getting its first soil sample into an onboard
laboratory for analysis, jubilant NASA scientists said on
Wednesday.

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