| Ex-aides question Murdoch's testimony over phone hacking Posted: Putting News International chairman James Murdoch in a tight spot, two of his former executives have questioned his testimony to a parliamentary committee where he pleaded ignorance to the wider practice of phone hacking at his now defunct newspaper News of the World.  
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| Is skull found at Pearl Harbour that of a Japanese pilot? Posted: Forensic scientists are conducting tests on a skull unearthed at the bottom of Pearl Harbor to determine if it belonged to a Japanese pilot who died in the historic attack on Dec. 7, 1941.  
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| US: Murderer executed, death by injection videotaped Posted: A man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed on Thursday after the courts allowed what experts say is the nation's first video-recorded execution in almost two decades.  
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| Hacking scandal a chance for clean-up: UK deputy PM Nick Clegg Posted: Britain's phone-hacking scandal gives the country a chance to clean up improper relationships among politicians, journalist and law-enforcement officials, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday.  
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| Mystery in town: Where the streets have no name Posted: Police in one Massachusetts town are investigating the mysterious disappearance of about 100 street signs.  
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| Ghulam Nabi Fai's hearing today Posted: The detention hearing of Ghulam Nabi Fai, arrested by the FBI for illegally lobbying for Pakistan and its spy agency to influence US policy on Kashmir, is set to happen later today.  
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| Race to the Moon heats up for private firms Posted: Now that the last space shuttle has landed back on Earth, a new generation of space entrepreneurs would like to whip up excitement about the prospect of returning to the Moon.  
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| Pakistan protests arrest of Ghulam Nabi Fai Posted: The Pakistani government on Thursday protested to the US over the arrest of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai, detained by American authorities for working for the ISI, and what it described as a "slander campaign" against Islamabad.  
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| Musharraf says no complicity on Osama bin Laden Posted: Former president Pervez Musharraf insisted on Thursday that Pakistan did not provide assistance to Osama bin Laden as he renewed criticism of the US raid that killed the world's most wanted man.  
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| William, Kate refuse compensation from British Airways Posted: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge refused 200 pounds compensation each from British Airways after their in-flight entertainment failed on their journey back from the US, a media report said on Thursday.  
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| Hackers claim to breach NATO security Posted: A group of computer hackers claims to have breached NATO security and accessed hordes of restricted material. The group called Anonymous says it would be "irresponsible" to publish most of the material it stole from NATO but that it is sitting on about one gigabyte of data.  
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| Before Wendi Murdoch, this woman tried to protect Rupert Posted: The heroics of Wendi Deng Murdoch drew gasps of awe when she lunged out of her seat in a committee room on Tuesday to protect her husband, Rupert Murdoch, from a protester wielding a shaving cream pie.  
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| Sydney Opera House photo on Al Qaeda website Posted: Police have cautioned Australians to be vigilant after an Al Qaeda-linked online magazine published a picture of Sydney's iconic Opera House. They have expressed concern about the influence on the local Islamic community of the magazine's extremist literature.  
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| Atlantis ends its final voyage and an era in space Posted: The last space shuttle flight rolled to a stop just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, closing an era of the nation's space program.  
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| Kenya torches 5 tons of ivory taken from poachers Posted: Kenya's president set fire to more than 5 tons of elephant ivory worth $16 million on Wednesday, in an act meant to focus attention on a rising tide of poaching deaths.  
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| Trying to save troops' lives with flying hospital Posted: A light rain fell on a runway in the early morning darkness as vans pulled up to what one officer calls the "Cadillac" of medical evacuation aircraft. Dozens of service members began loading wounded comrades onto a huge C-17 military transport plane in a carefully choreographed process.  
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| Teen killed parents with a hammer in US Posted: A Florida teenager didn't believe his best friend when he said he was going to kill his parents. He had heard the threats before.  
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