North Korea Wednesday rejected an offer from South Korea on the same day a U.S. diplomat invited the North back to the nuclear bargaining table.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak proposed a normalization of relations between the two countries that share the Korean peninsula. The North rejected it, saying Lee was trying to stand in the [...]

Animal authorities in Pennsylvania said a cat found abandoned and wrapped in duct tape has gone home with a new adoptive family.
Liz Williamson, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said a few people contacted the organization to claim ownership of the cat, named Sticky after its rescue, but no [...]

India aims to boost its nuclear energy capacity by 12,000 percent by 2050.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in making the announcement Tuesday at a New Delhi conference on peaceful uses of nuclear power, predicted that India could produce 470 gigawatts of nuclear power.
That would make India the largest nuclear energy producer in the world, surpassing the [...]

Archaeologists in Tennessee said they have discovered items dating back to the Civil War, including a 6-pound cannon ball, on a former golf course.
The archaeologists and history experts surveying the former Country Club of Franklin said they discovered the cannon ball along with items including a hotchkiss shell, buckles, spoons and homemade bullets in sand [...]

Lake Michigan’s food chain is under threat from an invasive fish and biologists are working on ways to keep it out of the lake, university scientists say.
A $9 million electric fish barrier keeps Asian carp from migrating between the Mississippi River and the lake and the Army Corps of Engineers just boosted the power, the [...]