THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER Tour Van Stolen

Australia’s hottest export, THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER’s tour van was stolen last night from the Ram’s Head Casino loading dock in Annapolis, MD. THUNDER’s van contained thousands of dollars of equipment, costumes and merchandise. A $5,000 reward is being offered for the return of the van and contents. Read more

NASA’s Shuttle Discovery Launches With Japanese Laboratory

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station. Read more

Japanese Woman Arrested After Secretly Living in Man’s Closet for a Year

In the town of Kasuya, Fukuoka, Japan, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after surveillance tape from inside an unnamed man’s home showed her living in his closet. Read more

Chechnya: Pro-Moscow Authorities Move Memorial To Stalin Victims

When Russian settlers moved to Chechnya following Josef Stalin’s 1944 deportation of Chechens, they soon found out that building materials were in short supply. That’s when they remembered the old gravestones dotting the Chechen capital — these were swiftly unearthed and used to erect buildings and pave roads. Read more

Certain Form of Tomatoes Could be Key to Prostate Cancer Prevention

New cancer research from the University of Missouri suggests that eating a certain form of tomato product could be the key to unlocking the prostate cancer-fighting potential of the tomato. The positive effect of tomato products has been suggested in many studies, but, until now, researchers did not know exactly what caused this effect. Read more

Scientists Discover Stinging Truths About Jellyfish Blooms in the Bering Sea

A new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea–one of the U.S.’s most productive fisheries–into veritable jellytoriums during the 1990s. Read more

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