The strike is expected to disrupt public transportation and major industry in the country and is the first major protest against Rajoy's government, which was elected in November and took office in December.

Posted: 7:34:37 AM  

It is radically unlike the other rocky bodies of our solar system - Venus, Mars, Earth, the moon, and the moons of other planets. Its core is too big; its surface too scrunched.

It looks shriveled, like a liposuction patient left with too much skin.
It contains too much iron. Its internal structure - how the planet is built - is confounding.

Its magnetic field is out of whack, asymmetrical.
And its surface is strange, a jagged, ragged landscape of soaring escarpments, snaking faults, half-buried "ghost craters," dead volcanos and mysterious pit-marked "hollows."

Posted: 7:32:55 AM  

"I don't know why you're panicking so much. We've only got a mower!"

Posted: 7:26:15 AM  

Swine flu vaccine may have been responsible for a sudden increase in cases of narcolepsy among schoolchildren in Finland, a study has found.

Posted: 7:22:06 AM  

Starling numbers are in decline across northern Europe and they are red-listed as a bird of high conservation concern.

Posted: 7:19:02 AM