Microsoft Makes Major Bid For Yahoo
Not content to fall behind Google in the race to capture online advertising dollars, Microsoft offered to buy search engine operator Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a move to boost its competitive edge against Google in the online services market. feeds.cbsnews.com
Call to show car 'lifetime price'
Showing the long-term cost of a car would encourage buyers towards "green" models, a UK government adviser says. news.bbc.co.uk
A hip stance by an ancient ancestor [Subscriber Only]
By 6 million years ago, upright human ancestors had evolved a hip design that remained stable for perhaps the next 4 million years, until the appearance of hip modifications in Homo erectus. sciencenews.org
Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.... hosted.ap.org