AP - Senate Democrats called Wednesday for a limited windfall profits tax on the largest oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package that also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging.
AFP - Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.
AFP - The European Commission on Wednesday ordered more tests on whether several genetically modified products should be allowed in Europe, putting back a decision on whether to give approval.
LiveScience.com - At 12:45 p.m. ET, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 6.8
occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey. The epicenter was about 55 miles (90 km)
east-southeast of Mito, Honshu