A convicted neo-Nazi bank robber is expected to name several other suspects in the Oklahoma City bombing when he testifies in the trial of Terry Nichols January 28, 2004 Langan to testify at Nichols trial, name others in OKC bombing By J.D. Cash

Conjoined Twin Girls Die in Texas Hospital Fri January 30, 2004 02:00 PM ET SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Six-month-old twin girls, joined from their chests to their abdomens, have died after doctors concluded there was no possibility that they would survive separation, ... Joined from just below their collarbones to their bellies, each of the girls had two arms and two legs but they shared a heart, liver, diaphragms and parts of their intestines....

Fri January 30, 2004 11:14 AM ET Minneapolis right now is 24 below zero (Fahrenheit) and Chicago is minus 8. That's real temperatures, not wind-chill.

Names of the Dead Published: January 31, 2004 The Department of Defense has identified 519 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:

Man rescues cat; cat saves man from fire 1/28/2004 HUDSON, N.H. -- A man who rescued a stray cat from the cold got the favor returned on Sunday when the cat woke him as his house filled with smoke.

EEewwww! Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City Blood and guts of 17-meter long 50-ton mammal splatter sidewalks, automobiles parked nearby 2004-01-27 / Taiwan News, Contributing Writer / By Jason Pan

A Voice From 9/11 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2004 Phone Call From 9/11 Plane Approximately 26 minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, airline officials received a cool - totally under control - phone call from a flight attendant working in the rear cabin of the Boeing 767. Betty Ong - known as "Bee" to her friends - had worked for American for 14 years. Today, with her family listening in, a government commission investigating 9/11 played a tape of that call. Ong's was the first voice on the tape.

Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines Tue January 27, 2004 12:32 PM ET By Elinor Schang COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically modified flower that could help detect land mines and it hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few years. ... The genetically modified weed has been coded to change color when its roots come in contact with nitrogen-dioxide (NO2) evaporating from explosives buried in soil. Within three to six weeks from being sowed over land mine infested areas the small plant, a Thale Cress, will turn a warning red whenever close to a land mine.

Tuesday, 27 January, 2004, 13:29 GMT Kentucky Fried Fish hits Vietnam The bird flu epidemic spreading through Asia has claimed its latest casualty: the C in KFC. The global chicken chain has been forced to keep almost all its outlets in Vietnam closed after the illness killed six people in the country. Now, with customers shying away from its normal fare, it is switching to an all-fish menu.

The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. by Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent

Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades' By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 25 January 2004

Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month 25.01.2004 12.00pm - By DAVID USBORNE... Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Portions... Neither Spurlock, 33, nor the three doctors who agreed to monitor his health during the experiment were prepared for the degree of ruin it would wreak on his body.

Google Tries Out Its Own Friendster-Style Service Fri January 23, 2004 09:09 PM ET By Lisa Baertlein SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google, the No. 1 Web search engine, this week rolled out an Internet service called Orkut, a challenge to the pioneering social networking site Friendster. The service, at (http://www.orkut.com), was released on Thursday. It is still in the test phase and membership is by invitation only, Google said.

Sat January 24, 2004 12:20 PM ET By Gunna Dickson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Couples meet online. They choose gifts, plan weddings, scout romantic locales and book honeymoons online. And, if things don't work out, they can pull the plug and file for divorce online.

Scientists have decided that a fossil found near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire is the remains of the oldest creature ever to live on land. It is thought that the one-centimetre millipede which was prised out of a siltstone bed is 428-million-years-old.

A mobile phone that masquerades as a gun ... the latest hidden weaponry to show up on the radar of law-enforcement folks. ADAM ZAGORIN Monday, Feb. 02, 2004

Sunday, January 25, 2004 Captain Kangaroo championed TV for kids By Joanne Ostrow Denver Post TV/Radio Critic The Captain was 76 when he died Friday morning. To children of the 1950s, he seemed that old when he started the longest-running kids' series on network television.

By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent CANNES, France (Reuters) - Music downloads will render the ubiquitous compact disc all but obsolete in the next five years, yet half of all companies that begin selling digital songs online will fail by year-end, a researcher warned on Saturday.

The winner of this week's "Hoosier Millionaire" game show died after being hit by a pickup truck just hours after the show's taping -- by John Holl john.holl@indystar.com January 24, 2004

I allowed myself to be taken under the wings of the greatest self-proclaimed pickup artists in the world and entered an underground subculture of men dedicated — sometimes to an unhealthy extreme — to figuring out the mystery of the opposite sex. - by NEIL STRAUSS Published: January 25, 2004 NYTimes

Drunken elephants die in accident By Subir Bhaumik BBC correspondent in Calcutta Four wild elephants drunk on rice beer have been electrocuted in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, wildlife officials report. Last Updated: Friday, 23 January, 2004, 16:29 GMT

WGN's Ray Rayner dies January 21, 2004 BY ART GOLAB Staff Reporter The man who entertained generations of Chicago children with Chelveston the Duck, Cuddley Duddley and morning turtle races is dead. Ray Rayner, who hosted the morning kid show “Ray Rayner and Friends” on WGN for nearly 20 years, and also played clown Oliver O’Oliver, has died in New Mexico, where he was living in retirement, according to WGN, which said it was informed of his death by Rayner’s daughter.

Court rejects belly dancers' appeal Tue Jan 20,10:53 PM ET CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court has rejected an appeal by Russian and Australian belly dancers against a ban on working in the country they consider the home of the dance.

Payment Was in the Mail, for Five Years Wed Jan 21,10:33 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo! MIFFLINVILLE, Pa. - The letter accompanying the check for $90.18 asked Dean Little not to cash it until Aug. 29, 1998. ... "They weren't lying," he said.

Erotic Museum Celebrates the Tame, Tawdry By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - One look at Hollywood's newest tourist attraction and it's easy to mistake it for any number of adult shops along the popular Walk of Fame.

Sleep helps solve problems Wed Jan 21, 1:06 PM ET By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Advice to "sleep on it" could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night's sleep a problem that seemed insurmountable the night before can often appear more manageable, although the evidence until now has been anecdotal.

Wed Jan 21,12:37 PM ET By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - The prospect of condoms and Kama Sutra poses in a parade in Rio de Janeiro's famed Carnival has riled the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Brazilian (news - web sites) city.

New Court Ruling on Sex Clubs Causes Concern Among Prostitutes, Feminists, Club Owners By Juliane Von Reppert-Bismarck Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 19, 2004 MADRID, Spain (AP)

Spammers' Scavenging E-Mail Virus Surfaces on Net Mon January 19, 2004 03:55 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A new computer virus capable of harvesting millions of e-mail addresses from infected PCs was rapidly spreading across the Internet Monday, security experts said.

Mobile operators in the UK have joined forces to protect children from adult content accessible on mobile phones. BBC Last Updated: Monday, 19 January, 2004, 12:10 GMT

BBC The first image of the Red Planet taken by Europe's Mars Express probe since it arrived in orbit has been released. Last Updated: Monday, 19 January, 2004, 15:40 GMT

Posted on Mon, Jan. 19, 2004 Japanese Soldiers Make Historic Foray MATTHEW ROSENBERG Associated Press SAMAWAH, Iraq - Japanese soldiers entered a conflict zone Monday for first time since World War II, crossing into Iraq on a humanitarian mission that has stirred controversy at home while raising great expectations among Iraqis.

Singer Randy VanWarmer, Author of "Just When I Needed You Most," Dies at Age 48 By Joe Edwards Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 14, 2004 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)

PETA's impotence ad a no-no with CBS Animal rights group says network rejects $2M to air its meat/impotence ad during Super Bowl. January 15, 2004: 3:51 PM EST by Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money Staff Writer

CinemaNow Revamps Web Site, Offers Films for Sale Thu January 15, 2004 02:00 AM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online movie download site CinemaNow on Thursday unveiled an updated service with new features that for the first time include the ability to own digital copies of movies for about the price of a DVD.

one of the first post-Saddam Hussein heavy metal concerts It's only Iraq 'n' roll but I like it By Chris Hogg BBC correspondent in Baghdad

Bracelet Returned Nearly 60 Years After Soldier Dies in WWII The Associated Press Published: Jan 11, 2004 FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - When Virginia Moore's husband was killed in battle during World War II, an identification bracelet she gave him was lost in a foxhole for almost 60 years. Moore was tearfully reunited with the token Friday when a Belgian police officer gave her the silver piece her husband, Marcus Comer, was wearing when he left to fight in 1944.

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food.

Last Wounded U.S. Veteran of World War I Dies; Said His Secret Was 'keep Breathing' The Associated Press Published: Jan 9, 2004 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Alfred Pugh, the last known combat-wounded U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 108, just 10 days short of his 109th birthday, when he died Wednesday.

I want to be able to put up a webpage showing the NEXT 5 or so mixes to be played on my shoutcast stream. Is there anyway to interrogate the playlist in this manner?

Reunited twins embrace entwined future By Matt Wells BBC correspondent in New York Monday, 5 January, 2004, 12:11 GMT

On Law: Juries outweigh evidence By Michael Kirkland UPI Legal Affairs Correspondent Published 1/2/2004 10:15 AM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Assuming for the moment that Michael Jackson is brought before a jury on charges of molesting a teenage boy, his trial will highlight one of the most significant changes in the modern defense process. Jury selection has become at least as important as the evidence.

Ancient site hints at first US settlers 15:03 02 January 04 NewScientist.com news service Stone-age people lived in the lands north of the Arctic Circle before the peak of thelast Ice Age - much earlier than had been thought, suggests new findings.

When the stewardess put out the call: "Is there a doctor on the plane", 15 cardiologists stood up to help

2003 Florida Weird News In Review