August 20, 2008

This radar image released by NASA shows what scientists believe to be sea-size bodies of liquid, shown in blue, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan. At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said recently. AP Photo/NASA

Searchers find canyon hikers
     PHOENIX (AP) — Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.
     The 11 people from two families were tracked down in the canyon Monday, Coconino County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Gerry Blair said. They were the last to be accounted for after creeks overflowing with runoff from severe thunderstorms washed away trails during the weekend, stranding dozens of tourists.

G-7 vows Georgian support
     WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s major industrial countries are calling for increased economic support for war-torn Georgia. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrial countries issued a joint statement Wednesday pledging support for Georgia’s economy and its financial system. They also urged other countries and institutions to assist in the effort.

Iraq to export oil to Lebanon
     BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq and Lebanon plan to sign a series of trade agreements in coming weeks, including one on Iraq exporting oil to Lebanon, the prime ministers of the two countries said Wednesday.
     Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora’s one-day trip to Baghdad was only the third visit by a senior Arab official since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Roadside babies come in threes
     ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Make that three babies — count ’em, three — to go.
     Babies in a hurry made for a memorable Monday morning for firefighters in and around Rochester who were summoned three times to deliver infants in cars.
     Just after 5 a.m. Monday, authorities said, a woman gave birth in a car alongside a road in suburban Brighton. Fire officials and firefighter-emergency medical personnel helped deliver the infant.
     Two hours later, firefighters in nearby Perinton delivered a baby girl in a car that had pulled into the parking lot of their fire station while the mother was in route to the hospital. The third birth occurred in Rochester. Details weren’t immediately available.