"I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body," 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. "Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn't know how I even got there."

Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in July 2010.

Posted: 11:42:54 PM  

Now police in Miami, Florida, have unveiled their latest crime-fighting tool that is literally an 'eye in the sky'.

Posted: 11:38:53 PM  

Swedish newspaper The Expressen reported that an unnamed woman officer in charge of questioning the two alleged victims, who have accused Assange of rape and molestation, had internet contact with one of them more than a year before the case surfaced last August.

Posted: 11:18:31 PM  

A volunteer at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has discovered what is believed to be the first, and maybe the only, color photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly destroyed the city.

Eyewitness report

Time is running short ...

Posted: 8:18:06 AM  

In 1910, French artist Villemard produced a series of illustrations depicting what life might be like in the year 2000. Yeah, he pretty much nailed it.

Posted: 8:15:44 AM  

Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi says the time for bullying powers to impose tyranny and to undermine nations' will has drawn to a close.

Posted: 8:13:52 AM  

Paul Wolfowitz, who served as undersecretary of defense of the United States and as World Bank president, architect of the Iraq war, published an open letter to Obama urging him to turn Libya into a "protectorate under NATO control," on behalf of the "international community."

Posted: 8:12:57 AM  

Squatters move into Gaddafi son's £11million mansion demanding it is 'returned to the Libyan people'

The squatters, some wearing balaclavas, draped a huge white banner across the building[base ']s roof bearing the slogan [OE]Out of Libya, out of London[base '] and showing Colonel Gaddafi[base ']s face crossed with a thick red line.

Posted: 7:56:16 AM  

X-FLARE:

March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site.

After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th.
This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity, and shows that Solar Cycle 24 is heating up.

Posted: 7:52:46 AM  

A New Species of Humanity

Todd Rundgren on The Force

Posted: 7:45:59 AM