The proprietors of a San Francisco restaurant said Wednesday they have surveillance footage of a thief who snatched a valuable Picasso drawing off an art gallery wall. (July 7)
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Bike polo players don’t only like it for the sport, but also for the sense of community. Over the past few years bike polo has grown, with more than 280 cities worldwide offering some sort of organized games. (July 7)
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A train slammed into a bus carrying passengers returning from a wedding in northern India early Thursday. Officials said at least 35 people were killed, dozens were injured, and the bus wreckage was dragged 500 meters along the track. (July 7)
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Republicans showed new signs of flexibility to break a budget impasse Wednesday, but the White House raised the ante, pushing for more deficit reduction and casting the GOP as defenders of corporate tax giveaways. (July 6)
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Parts of China’s Sichuan Province in the southwest of country had been hit by a three-day continuous downpour by Wednesday. Chinese state media report heavy rains across the country have killed at least 25 people in less than a week. (July 7)
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Highlights of this day in history: Terror bombings strike London’s transit system; Oliver North testifies at Iran-Contra hearings; Sandra Day O’Connor nominated for US Supreme Court; Author Robert Heinlein and musician Ringo Starr born. (July 7)
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As the shuttle races around Earth at 17000 miles per hour, more than 7000 people at the Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s “Space Coast” will be preparing for unemployment in the coming weeks and months. (July 7)
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NASA’s shuttle program is ending after 30 years and 134 missions linking humans to space. (July 7)
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Tens of thousands of people gathered on Wednesday in Benghazi, Libya for a rally aimed at sustaining momentum for their nearly five month-old uprising against the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (July 5)
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