The leading stock exchange fell at the start of trade on Monday as the euro slumped to a four-year dollar low and Asian equities plunged on mounting concerns about eurozone debt, traders said.

"Investors are shocked as they had thought that the worst was over with the euro impact," Kenichi Hirano, strategist at Tachibana Securities, told Dow Jones Newswires.

THAT was just a TEST ...

Posted: 10:43:47 AM  

Shelly Gomez of Noah's Bark, a South Bay dog rescue, is caring for a mom dog and her five pups, along with a kitten she rescued from the same shelter in Los Angeles.

The tiny black-and-white, blue-eyed kitten now snoozes and suckles right alongside her chubby puppy littermates as "mom" grooms and looks after them all.

"They're still too young to play," Gomez said. "Every once in a while the kitten will put her paw up on them, but all they do now is eat, poop and sleep. In another week or two I'll have my hands full."

The kitten is fitting right in, she said.

"I don't think they know any difference," she said. "The kitten always seems to be in the middle of the whole group, sleeping right in the middle of the pile."

Posted: 7:53:09 AM  

Boucher studied organophosphate pesticides, which account for as much as 70 percent of the pesticide use in the U.S. They work by interfering with the nervous systems of insects, but have a similar effect in mammals, including humans. Most people in the U.S. have residues of the products in their urine.

Posted: 7:46:07 AM  

Ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has forced London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest air hub, to close.

The 00:00 GMT to 06:00 GMT closure on Monday also affects the city's Gatwick airport.

Ash clouds also forced the closure of Amsterdam's Schiphol and Rotterdam airports from 6am (04:00 GMT) to 2pm (12:00 GMT) on Monday, Dutch aviation officials said.

Posted: 7:32:25 AM  

French president Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to pull out of the euro unless Angela Merkel dropped her hostility to the EU's safety net plan.

Posted: 7:30:35 AM  

However, several Arab news websites said that Jamal Khashoggi was in fact fired because of articles in Al-Watan criticising Saudi Arabia's conservative application of Islam and the religious police who enforce adherence to it.

Posted: 7:27:40 AM  

Scientists have discovered that living to the ripe old age of 100 may have nothing to do the lifestyle you lead and everything to do with the type of genes you have - provided you have the right DNA.

Posted: 7:26:25 AM  

Checks included scrutiny of the police national computer, financial records and analysis of 'known associates' before people were cleared for travel.

Posted: 7:20:55 AM  

The god of volcanoes and blacksmiths as well as alchemy, Vulcan is often identified with Tubal-Cain of the Genesis bloodline of Cain theoretically carrying the 'angelic' essence or genes of the Anunnaki/Nephilim/Watchers/Fallen Ones or Lucifer which morphs into the 'Grail bloodline' popularly associated with Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
The stuff of The Da Vinci Code...

Posted: 7:19:25 AM